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There is no way in the GUI manifest editor to know which fields are translatable or deprecated. It would be really nice if there was a quick way to tell if a field is deprecated without having to enter a value in and then check for errors in the source view. Perhaps if an icon with overlays were displayed to the left of the label? The images could be based on those used in the schema editor. The benefit of doing it this way is that you can also see the attribute type at a glance. It might also be cool to display a warning icon for missing mandatory fields and tranlatable fields that have not been translated.
*** Bug 90006 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I just fell over this again. Could this feature be added to the 3.3 plan?
No. We won't commit to this item until there is a reasonable outcome for bug 120238.
I see, waiting for bug 120238 totally makes sense.
This can be simply done using field decorations. For deprecated fields, decorate the corresponding text field on the bottom left corner with a warning field decoration. For translatable fields, decorate the corresponding text field on the top left corner with a translatable field decoration. A 7x7 pixel translatable field decoration will need to created by the media design team. Will not start anything until Bug # 120238 is decided or until I get the go ahead from Wassim.
This can wait until post-3.3
*** Bug 192840 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 197518 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
+1 for this bug. Here's the description from bug 19758 that is a dup of this one... "When an XML attribute or element is deprecated, it would be helpful if the Extension Point Schema Editor, and the content it provides to the Outline view, used a "strike through" icon. This would bring some consistency with the JDT regarding the way that deprecation is handled. I feel that the need is greater in the Outline view, since the only way to see that an element or attribute is deprecated is to look in the editor itself." Plus, here's a useful comment from Mike Pawlowski... "Other places where the deprecated element icon could be used for include the following: * For elements proposed via the context menu in the Plug-in Manifest editor * For elements in the Extensions tree viewer in the Plug-in Manifest editor There was some discussion about new icons in bug 195764"
I will try to do something for 3.4... and appreciate any help from the community here.
Not planned for 3.5
3.6 shows the translatable fields already. Only the deprecated fields are not shown, or?
> 3.6 shows the translatable fields already. Only the deprecated fields are not > shown, or? Both kinds of fields are shown, but you cannot easily see which of the fields are translatable or deprecated because they look the same as other fields. For translatable fields, the label is a link, but that's also the case for other field types (e.g. references to Java types), so it's still not easy to determine.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
Please remove the stalebug flag, if this issue is still relevant and can be reproduced on the latest release.
