RE: [mylyn-dev] Bug or Feature

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Nice to see that we've finally converged on a good solution to this, largely thanks to Eric's suggestions of explicitly training the user on this, and giving them an option to turn it off with that same (PONT, i.e. point of needed training) dialog.

195727: warn user about close being mapped to "remove from context" on first editor close
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=195727

Mik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylyn-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylyn-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jevgeni Holodkov
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:07 PM
> To: Mylyn developer discussions
> Subject: Re: [mylyn-dev] Bug or Feature
> 
> Hi Eric!
> 
>   The reason is that Mylyn by default thinks that if you have closed
> your editor, then you have lost the interest in it, even if it was a
> landmark. You can disable this feature via Window > Preferences > Mylyn
> > Context - disable Manage open editors with task context. But this may
> cause that your context will be overloaded soon. As far as I know Mylyn
> is about showing you resources you have been working lately, not about
> showing all you resources you have been working with (guys, correct me,
> if I am wrong). You will notice, that if you don't work with a class
> for a while, then it will also disappear from the context. There was a
> discussion on this topic before
> (http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t92477.html), maybe that
> will help you.
> 
> Nevertheless, I think it would be a good idea to explain explicitly
> this feature (if not yet?), since that is the most common question I've
> asked so far at my site.
> 
> With best wishes,
> Jevgeni Holodkov
> 
> On 7/4/07, Eric Bodden <eric.bodden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > In the Europa release, I observe the following behavior which is
> > unintuitive to me but I am still not 100% sure whether it's a bug or
> I
> > am actually Mylyn in a way it's not meant to be used.
> >
> > The problem is that Mylyn seems to remove all information from the
> > context for items in resources that I close.
> >
> > To reproduce this scenario:
> > - Create a new task and enable it.
> > - Open some resources (e.g. Java source files), edit some code, etc.
> > ... The edited methods show up in the (filtered) package explorer.
> > - Now close all open editors. Mylyn removes all those items from the
> > context (i.e. they are not shown any more in the package explorer.)
> >
> > Does that mean that whenever I close a resource, it is automatically
> > deemed unimportant? I am really used to trying to keep my workbench
> > from trying to become flooded and hence I close open editors quite
> > frequently. Hence, this behavior seems pretty unintuitive to me.
> >
> > Any suggestions on this?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Eric
> >
> >
> > --
> > Eric Bodden
> > Sable Research Group
> > McGill University, Montréal, Canada
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