Bug 438381 - Completion tips disappear after skipping over them
Summary: Completion tips disappear after skipping over them
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Recommenders (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Mac OS X
: P3 normal (vote)
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Reported: 2014-06-27 07:55 EDT by Johannes Dorn CLA
Modified: 2019-07-24 14:36 EDT (History)
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Description Johannes Dorn CLA 2014-06-27 07:55:59 EDT 
When quickly stepping through the proposals, selected completion tips are marked and then never shown again, even though the user hasn't read them.

For example, in a new workspace:
1. trigger completion
2. press UP-ARROW twice to select the "Enable Subwords" proposal
3. press ENTER

Triggering completion again will no longer show the "Discover new Extensions to Code Recommenders" proposal, as it has been selected before.

I'd prefer it, if the proposal is only marked as seen, once its "preview" window has been open for a while.

A second possibility would be to show a tip until it has been selected a fixed amount of time (e.g. 5). In that case, tips should give users an option in the preview window to not show again.

Another possibility (perhaps in addition), would be to never show more than one (random) completion tip at once, though the user can still accidentally dismiss a tip.
Comment 1 Andreas Sewe CLA 2014-07-21 03:11:32 EDT 
Like Bug 437046, this improvement to the completion-tips mechanism probably won't make it into 2.2.0, unless we receive some external contributions. Postponing to 2.3.0 for now.