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N20050606-0010, GTK+ 2.6.4, KDE 3.3.2, X.org 6.8.2, Linux 2.6.11 The progress view has a preference dialog reachable from the view menu. This dialog only contains one preference. It would be more consistent with other views for this preference to be controlled via a check box menu item in the view menu.
It was there as a proof of concept for view preferences. More will be coming when I get a chance to work on it again.
This was introduced in 3.0, and it seems unlikely that more preferences will be added to this view in 3.1. I would recommend switching to a menu-controlled preference for 3.1, to fall more inline with current best practices outlined in the Eclipse User Interface Guidelines ("http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-UI-Guidelines/Contents.html") and highlighted in Bug 98234 comment #3. We are the user interface team, and people look to us for examples.
And this our example of a view based preference. No one else used one and we didn't have another candidate so we chose this one to ship.
I agree with comment 2. As a user, I am not interested in a proof of concept for view preferences. Other examples for view-based preferences can be found in the Variables and in the Synchronize view.
