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Last update: March 15, 2006 (Changes since March 13, 2006 in <font color="#33cc00 green</font>. New entries in Team and JDT UI)

<font color="#0000FF Entries in BLUE are not in the plan for 3.2</font>

So far, I have received input from the Search, Platform/JDT Text, JDT Core, JDT UI, and Debug teams. This document contains a summary of that feedback. The items are listed by component, but are otherwise in no particular order.

General / All

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     <td>Do we need a new splash screen? <font color="#00FF00 MVM 
       asking designers to investigate in light of new welcome as well.</font></td>
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     <td align="right" width="10% </td>
     <td>Update keywords for searching preference pages. I.e. verify
     that all the new preferences are covered.</td>
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Platform Compare

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     <th width="10% Bugzilla</th>
     <th>Description</th>
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     <td align="right" width="10% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=78063 78063]</td>
     <td>Full Javadoc line selected even though only a character has
     been added to a word</td>
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     <td align="right" width="10% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=68758 68758]
     </td>
     <td>Structured Compare: selected added element not part of
     selection</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=128362 128362]</td>
     <td>[Patch] Creating patch from compare in between
     versions/revisions</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=118021 118021]</td>
     <td>Structured compare not available with additions or deletions</td>
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<font color="#00FF00 112661</font> (bugs logged by mvm previously)

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     <td>Cleanup UI of Create/Apply Patch wizards (follow Eclipse UI
     guidelines):

button sizes
caption
margins
mnemonics (missing)
polish all descriptions and messages
Match Project... button launches dialog called Retarget Patch (inconsistent)

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Platform CVS

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     <th width="10% Bugzilla</th>
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     <td align="right" width="10% <font color="#FF0000 <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=112927 112927]</font></td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 [performance] Update CVS workspace job 
       takes too long</font></td>
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     <td></td>
     <td>See also "[#too_may_password too many passwords]" in the 
       Platform UI section below.</td>
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Platform Help

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     <th width="10% Bugzilla</th>
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     <td>New help support should be improved (2 votes):

Help button should be on the side where the help shows up. Should stay pushed, and a release should close the help view again
dialogs without help should better not get the help button
clicking on a link should directly open the help browser as the space next to the dialog is always too small

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Platform Resources

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     <th width="10% Bugzilla</th>
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     <td align="right" width="10% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=128384 128384]</td>
     <td>Build progress says "Building Workspace" when only building
     selected projects</td>
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Platform SWT

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     <th width="10% Bugzilla</th>
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     <td align="right" width="10% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=95634 95634]</td>
     <td>[Tree] TreeColumn does not show "..." on cut-off Text and misses tooltips</td>
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     <td align="right" width="10% </td>
     <td>I know I'm dreaming, but: styled ranges inside a tree item (Font 
       / colors etc for e.g. a word inside the full label) would be a boost</td>
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     <td align="right 125702</td>
     <td><font color="#000000 If you collapse a tree on a recent version of 
       GTK+, a big block of whitespace 

       appears at the bottom. It's very irritating.</font></td>
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123425

5200

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     <td><font color="#000000 There's also the "festival of carets" 
       bug. This is immediately noticeable to 

       anyone using a recent GTK+, and it makes us look like complete crap. 

       Unfortunately, it appears to be a bug somewhere in the Cairo/Pango/glib/GTK+ 
       

       stack specific to the FPU mode (which the Java VM modifies on start-up). 
       

       This bug is bad and will hard to track down. We need to do work if we 
       want 

       to see this fixed; we can't just say "It's their problem".</font></td>
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     <td> </td>
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Platform Team

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     <th width="10% Bugzilla</th>
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     <td></td>
     <td>Need a general polish pass on new History view filtering and user interactions. 
       The bugs below are examples...</td>
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     <td align="right" width="10% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=125860 125860]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 New history view: filter is not persisted 
       - no way to constantly ignore local history</font></td>
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     <td align="right" width="10% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=129916 129916]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 Per date sorting in History view forced 
       on me upon ever input change</font></td>
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     <td align="right  </td>

<td>

There are sometimes <a name="too_may_password ]too many password dialogs:

If I'm trying to work off-line but have CVS projects in workspace, it can happen that you get lots of dialogs to ask for the password as the CVS decorators each need that password. Clicking cancel once should be enough to let them know that I'm not interested in entering the password now.
It would be nice to have a less intrusive way of asking for passwords. Idea is e.g. a status line icon similar to the progress view that blinks when a passwords are pending. Clicking on this icon brings a 'authentication view' that shows that status of all passwords: passed, failed, canceled, and lets me trying to connect again.

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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=130408 130408]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 Should be able to export psfs to the workspace 
       (2 votes)</font></td>
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Platform Text

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     <th width="10% Bugzilla</th>
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     <td align="right" width="10% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11624 11624]</td>
     <td>Text Drag and Drop (has many bug votes)

depends on StyledText support (<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=106372" title="NEW - Provide DND support for the StyledText widget 106372]), which is now marked as FIXED.

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Platform UI

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     <th width="12% Bugzilla</th>
     <th width="88% Description</th>
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     <td align="right 119890</td>

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     <td align="right 100993</td>
     <td><font color="#000000 [EditorMgmt][Presentations] Regression: Editor 
       tabs do not remember order or active tab after restarting Eclipse</font></td>
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     <td align="right 128455</td>
     <td> <font color="#000000 [Presentation] [ViewBar] Outline view toolbar 
       is visible above a maximized editor</font></td>
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     <td align="right 131559</td>
     <td> <font color="#FF0000 [Markers] Layout of marker filters dialog</font></td>
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     <td align="right 129936</td>
     <td> <font color="#000000 [ViewMgmt] View part description label should 
       wrap</font></td>
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     <td align="right 125691</td>
     <td> <font color="#000000 [ViewMgmt] Can't read view titles</font></td>
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     <td height="38" align="right 68684</td>
     <td><font color="#0000FF Remove MRU Ordering from the editors.</font></td>
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     <td align="right 113455</td>
     <td><font color="#000000 Some errors do not appear in the Problems view. 
       This happens very frequently 

       for me (multi-processor box, GTK+) if I have grouping turned on.</font></td>
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     <td align="right 130818</td>
     <td><font color="#000000 Filters do not seem to apply when grouping by 
       Java type (Problems view).

       </font></td>
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     <td align="right  </td>
     <td> </td>
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     <td align="right" width="12% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=126155 126155]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 [Markers] Issues of multi quick fix dialog</font></td>
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     <td align="right" width="12% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=122639 122639]</td>
     <td>[WorkbenchParts] PageBookView's toolbar doesn't properly re-layout after 
       page switching</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=128670 128670]</td>
     <td>[Dialogs] StatusDialog adds 2 horizontal margins around button bar</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=128178 128178]</td>
     <td>[Workbench] earlyStartup does not work in runtime eclipse with binary-imported 
       plugins</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=127629 127629]</td>
     <td>[Markers] problems view: keep selection stable</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=128381 1]<a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=128381 28381]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 [Markers] group should only show (10 of 
       10 items) if beyond the limit</font></td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=129812 129812]</td>
     <td>[Markers] Enabling problem categorization per default</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=129184 129184]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 Progress view should be made more prominent</font></td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=127289 127289]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 [Markers] SystemFilter and group selection 
       state not preserved</font></td>
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     <td align="right see suggestions in bug <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=109998 109998]</td>

<td>Experimental (?) Keys preference page (3 votes):

what do we do with the two pages?
sorting by keys, by commands and by scope<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=109998 ]
see which keys are free and which commands are not used
<font color="#00FF00 Platform UI team is investigating what can/can not be done about this without Doug around</font>

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     <td></td>
     <td>Finish the preferences clean up effort from 3.0:

decorator preference pages should offer a link to decorators
font / color preferences should use shared settings so it is also possible to configure the color and font decoration for CVS on the CVS page
<font color="#00FF00 UI - please provide a bug for this so we can track polish</font>

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     <td></td>
     <td>Improve the look of the filter control (preferences, other dialogs):

the text field seems unaligned as long as there is no 'clear' button
either dump the 'clear' button, or add it as a lay-over over the text field:

For example, in Thunderbird (mozilla mail client), they added a magnifying glass inside the text field (Good visual indication what this field is about) and the clear button ('x', is IMO a better icon than what we have) is inside the text field when applicable. Even better is the help text in light gray.
<font color="#00FF00 UI - please provide a bug for this so we can track polish</font>

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     <td></td>

The fast view icon looks like a bug, as the lower right corner is missing. For all the icons on the fast view bar, it isn't obvious what they do. They should be more "inviting" to click on. Maybe some extra adornment in the icon like an arrow that points in the direction they will open. The tooltip should also show the keyboard shortcut.

<font color="#00FF00 New icon is being requests, no other work decided at this point</font>

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JDT Core

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     <td align="right" width="10% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=108087 108087]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 Java conventions default formatter settings 
       confused</font></td>
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     <td align="right" width="10% </td>

Change 'unused parameters' warning to only work on private or final methods to avoid false positives.

<font color="#00FF00 JDT - please provide a bug for this or otherwise updated information?</font>

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JDT Debug

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     <th width="10% Bugzilla</th>
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     <td align="right" width="10% <font color="#0000FF <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=128074 128074]</font></td>
     <td><font color="#0000FF Cannot format stack trace</font></td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=123589 123589]</td>
     <td>Unexpected switch to empty editor when using scrapbook</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=123588 123588]</td>
     <td>Loosing key binding in scrapbook page</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=130534 130534]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 add a "collapse all" to the tree's toolbar</font></td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=128558 128558]</td>
     <td>support variables in port and host fields of Remote Java Applications</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77125 77125]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 preference for determing how Java breakpoints 
       are created - to suspend thread or entire VM</font></td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=125768 125768]</td>

ideally, there would be support for markers in external files from text/platform, but we might be able to do something here (not sure how much work this is)
since we support breakpoints in external files, and the editor now supports a ruler in external files, we really should make the two work together

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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=80746 80746]</td>
     <td><font color="#0000FF filter exceptions in anonymous classes 
       of X when filtered on X</font></td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=89474 89474]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 support to edit attributes of multiple 
       archives at once</font></td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=110837 110837]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 properly specify bootpath when launching 
       to avoid problems with crypto applications</font></td>
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     <td></td>
     <td>Columns in Variables/Registers view:

We've added support to the debug platform for columns in debug views
We want to add support for columns in the java debugger as an optional presentation (we've started this already)
<font color="#00FF00 DEBUG - please provide a bug for this so we can track polish</font>

       </ul></td>
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     <td></td>
     <td>Undo/Redo:

We don't currently support undo/redo in the Scrapbook or Display view, which has made a few users angry
<font color="#00FF00 DEBUG - please provide a bug for this so we can track polish</font>

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JDT Text

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     <td align="right" width="10% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=95619 95619]</td>
     <td>[5.0][content assist] Function parameter assist does not work
     with some parameterized types</td>
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     <td align="right" width="10% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=92371 92371]</td>
     <td>[content assist] Parameter guessing could also propose
     expressions for parameters of array types</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=41189 41189]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 [hovering] Editor tooltip size too small 
       for title text (3 votes)</font></td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=125677 125677]</td>
     <td><font color="#FF0000 [navigation] @category not standing out 
       enough in Java Outline view</font></td>
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     <td></td>

Improve the NLS tooling, especially existing hover and linking features to Eclipse string externalization support (2 votes)

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JDT UI

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     <th>Description</th>
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     <td></td>
     <td>Polish the new JUnit support (2 votes). Four examples follow:</td>
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     <td align="right" width="10% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=129929 129929]</td>
     <td>IDE no longer responsive when JUnit tests are running</td>
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     <td align="right" width="10% <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=129925 129925]</td>
     <td>[JUnit view] Hierarchical+failures should not show more than
     just failures</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=130106 130106]</td>
     <td>[junit] Hierarchical mode sometimes show testcase in progress
     and sometimes not</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=130107 130107]</td>
     <td>[junit view] Hierarchical mode not properly rebuilding the
     tree</td>
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     <td></td>
     <td>Polish the Clean Up support (2 votes):

Clean Up with focus on current file forces me to save other resources? This is particularly annoying when the resource is a text scratch file.
Clean Up should also offer to format the code.
The wizard needs polish.
<font color="#00FF00 JDT - please provide a bug for this so we can track polish</font>

       </ul>
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New Java Perspective (old one becomes the 'Classic Java Perspective')

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     <td>Copy qualified name to clipboard:

e.g. status line selectable/copy (<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=129309 129309]),
new action 'Copy Qualified Name',
or a new lightweight view that shows context and offers a copy

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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=108256 108256]</td>
     <td>[refactoring] [ltk] Refactoring preview does not correctly
     highlight 5.0 code [refactoring]</td>
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     <td align="right <a
       href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=122527 122527]</td>
     <td><font color="#0000FF [build path] Offer a SWT container in 
       JDT</font></td>
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