Bug 549668 - New changes should be on the right side by default
Summary: New changes should be on the right side by default
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 501752
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Compare (show other bugs)
Version: 4.13   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-Compare-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2019-07-30 14:05 EDT by Pierre-Yves Bigourdan CLA
Modified: 2019-07-30 14:24 EDT (History)
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Description Pierre-Yves Bigourdan CLA 2019-07-30 14:05:02 EDT 
Quoting Andrey Loskutov in Bug 450320:
> Please note, that "swap" option is only confusing for Eclipse users, but is
> the default for the rest of the world (including gerrit). New changes are
> always on the right side.

Indeed, new changes are always on the right side whether it be VS Code, IntelliJ, NetBeans, Gerrit, GitHub, etc.

Eclipse is the only tool that I know of that does things differently, which is confusing, especially for new users, but also for experimented users as shown in the linked bug. I suggest we change the default behaviour, and make the "Swap left and right" actually override this almost universal default.
Comment 1 Andrey Loskutov CLA 2019-07-30 14:15:07 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 501752 ***
Comment 2 Pierre-Yves Bigourdan CLA 2019-07-30 14:18:08 EDT 
Sorry about that. Searching for "swap left right" and "swap compare" did not pick up that bug.
Comment 3 Andrey Loskutov CLA 2019-07-30 14:24:23 EDT 
(In reply to Pierre-Yves B. from comment #2)
> Sorry about that. Searching for "swap left right" and "swap compare" did not
> pick up that bug.

Not a big deal.