RE: [mylar-dev] mylar 0.4.0 is now available

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

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From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eugene Kulesho

  Why don't you replace existing Tasks view? You just need to add some support for it in Mylar's task view...

 

I’ve changed the name back to Mylar Tasks to get rid of the ambiguity.  But we should overlap in functionality between these two views.  I’ve started a new Bugzilla discussion item for this so please comment there: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=114832

-- Activate and Deactivate actions should both appear in a pop-up menu in the task list (it is already long enough)

They currently do appear in the popup if you right click a task, right at the top of the list.  If you don't see them consider uninstalling any old versions of Mylar in case there is a conflict.

  Sorry. That is my typo. They both should _not_appear in the popup menu. Each task is either active or not active.

 

Done (bug 111708). 

-- Bugzilla-related actions should be in a pop-up menu. They look really out of place in a view menu.

That makes sense—they moved off the toolbar, which was getting too wide, into the local pull-down.  Are you suggesting moving them out of the pull-down to only appear in the pop-up?

  These actions are sort of context-specific and does not really related to the view itself.
  

Yes, and I agree that they’re sub-optimal in the view menu.  But the problem is that there is no reasonable selection to make for adding a category or query, because the root can’t currently be selected so those actions would have to pop up on any task, which I tried and it makes the context menu noisy too.  So for now they’re considered a part of the toolbar and the least-commonly used ones flow over into the pull down.  But we’ll have to improve on this soon.  Perhaps adding a nested “Add” popup menu (similar to New on the package explorer) would be a better solution.

Mik