Bug 403060 - [LML] Change method of showing a job in the system monitoring view
Summary: [LML] Change method of showing a job in the system monitoring view
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: PTP
Classification: Tools
Component: RM (show other bugs)
Version: 7.0   Edit
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2013-03-12 11:31 EDT by Greg Watson CLA
Modified: 2013-03-12 16:55 EDT (History)
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Mockup selecting two jobs (312.11 KB, image/png)
2013-03-12 16:48 EDT, Greg Watson CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Greg Watson CLA 2013-03-12 11:31:24 EDT 
Currently a user must click and hold on a job to show the location of the job in the system monitoring view. This is not really consistent with UI practices in Eclipse.

Would it be possible to change the behavior as follows?

1. Selecting a job in the active jobs view would highlight it in the system monitoring view. The job would remain selected until the user selects another job, or unselects the job (e.g. cmd-click).

2. Rather than greying out all the jobs except the highlighted job, instead draw a box around the nodes containing the job. 

3. If multiple jobs are selected, then the nodes for all the jobs are enclosed in a box.

4. The current behavior to bring the nodes onto the visible region would remain.

See attached screenshot for example of selecting two jobs.
Comment 1 Greg Watson CLA 2013-03-12 16:48:22 EDT 
Created attachment 228316 [details]
Mockup selecting two jobs
Comment 2 Beth Tibbitts CLA 2013-03-12 16:55:28 EDT 
See also https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=399629 "Difficult to find small jobs"