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The CVS decorator page contains a link to the global colors and fonts page. It's extremely frustrating to the user that all decorator options cannot be configured (and previewed) on one page. I don't see any benefit to making the user switch pages.
The user should not be able to configure CVS font and color settings when "Enable font and color decorations" is disabled.
It is a platform decision to centralize the specification of fonts and colors. As to the second point, that is covered in bug 73374. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73374 ***
I think that's the wrong decision, and this is a good example of why. So either platform/UI needs to reconsider, or CVS needs to provide another preview which gets displayed in this all-encompassing font and color preference page.
Moving to UI for comment.
I think the Team guys have it right - we are trying to centralize colours and fonts so that people don't have to search around so much. What we need to do in our decorators extension point is to add an id of a preference page to link to for the decorator description. My wish is that in a later release we could choose a good set of colours for a theme and make the constants public so that the other plug-in providers can just drop thier preferences and simply this.
But I **DO** have to search around. I have to _leave_ the CVS decorator page to configure CVS decorator settings. And I get overwhelmed by preference I'm not interested in. A perfect analogy would be configuring font and color settings for Internet Explorer. It would be completely wrong if I had to go back to the Desktop Display Properties Dialog's Appearance Tab to change the colors of a visited hyperlink, or the default webpage font. A global colors and fonts page doesn't scale, but that's a different issue.
To turn on CVS decorations, you must visit yet a THIRD preference page. So the preference page "Team/CVS/Label Decoarations" should be disabled when the checkbox on the other preference page "General/Appearance/Label Decoarations" is not checked. It is frustrating to make changes on the Team preference page and not actually see anything change in the package explorer.
There are currently no plans to work on this feature
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