Polish3.2

3.2 Polish Items

Last update: March 15, 2006 (Changes since March 13, 2006 in green. New entries in Team and JDT UI)

New additions in green.

Entries in RED have been fixed.

Entries in BLUE are not in the plan for 3.2

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

Bugzilla	Description
	Do we need a new splash screen? MVM asked designers to investigate in light of new welcome as well. No significant changes planned here
	Update keywords for searching preference pages. I.e. verify that all the new preferences are covered.

Platform Runtime

Bugzilla	Description
128178	[Workbench] earlyStartup does not work in runtime eclipse with binary-imported plugins

Platform Compare

Bugzilla	Description
78063	Full Javadoc line selected even though only a character has been added to a word
68758	Structured Compare: selected added element not part of selection
128362	[Patch] Creating patch from compare in between versions/revisions
118021	Structured compare not available with additions or deletions
112661 (bugs logged by mvm previously) 132693	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)

Platform CVS

Bugzilla	Description
112927	[performance] Update CVS workspace job takes too long
	See also " [#too_may_password">too many passwords]" in the Platform UI section below.

Platform Help

Bugzilla	Description
	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

Platform SWT

Bugzilla	Description
95634	[Tree] TreeColumn does not show "..." on cut-off Text and misses tooltips
	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
125702	If you collapse a tree on a recent version of GTK+, a big block of whitespace appears at the bottom. It's very irritating.
123425 5200	There's also the "festival of carets" bug. This is immediately noticeable to anyone using a recent GTK+, and it makes us look bad. 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 be 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".

Platform Team

Bugzilla	Description
	Need a general polish pass on new History view filtering and user interactions. The bugs below are examples...
125860	New history view: filter is not persisted - no way to constantly ignore local history
129916	Per date sorting in History view forced on me upon ever input change
	MOVED FROM UI 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.
130408	Should be able to export psfs to the workspace (2 votes)

Platform Text

Bugzilla	Description
11624	Text Drag and Drop (has many bug votes) depends on StyledText support (NEW - Provide DND support for the StyledText widget 106372), which is now marked as FIXED. In order to resolve this we first need to put the grounds for drag and drop contributions to editors, otherwise clients contributing some sort of DnD will get broken. This is covered in bug 125957 and won't make it into 3.2.

Platform UI

Bugzilla	Description
119890	[ViewMgmt] Allow control of view tab compression - this was changed in 3.2 and need to decide if we like it
100993	[EditorMgmt][Presentations] Regression: Editor tabs do not remember order or active tab after restarting Eclipse Investigating
128455	[Presentation] [ViewBar] Outline view toolbar is visible above a maximized editor Deferred to post 3.2
131559	[Markers] Layout of marker filters dialog
129936	[ViewMgmt] View part description label should wrap
125691	[ViewMgmt] Can't read view titles
68684	Remove MRU Ordering from the editors.</td> </tr>
113455</td>	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.</td> </tr>
130818</td>	Filters do not seem to apply when grouping by Java type (Problems view). </td> </tr>
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126155</td>	[Markers] Issues of multi quick fix dialog</td> </tr>
122639</td>	[WorkbenchParts] PageBookView's toolbar doesn't properly re-layout after page switching Will investigate if time permits. </td> </tr>
128670</td>	[Dialogs] StatusDialog adds 2 horizontal margins around button bar</td> </tr>
127629</td>	[Markers] problems view: keep selection stable</td> </tr>
128381, 128381</td>	[Markers] group should only show (10 of 10 items) if beyond the limit</td> </tr>
129812</td>	[Markers] Enabling problem categorization per default</td> </tr>
129184</td>	Progress view should be made more prominent</td> </tr>
127289</td>	[Markers] SystemFilter and group selection state not preserved</td> </tr>
see suggestions in bug 109998</td>	Experimental (?) Keys preference page (3 votes): what do we do with the two pages? sorting by keys, by commands and by scope 109998 see which keys are free and which commands are not used Platform UI team is investigating what can/can not be done about this without Doug around </td> </tr>
</td>	Finish the preferences clean up effort from 3.0: decorator preference pages should offer a link to decorators</li> 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 UI - please provide a bug for this so we can track polish </td> </tr>
</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. UI - please provide a bug for this so we can track polish </td> </tr>
</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. New icon is being requested, no other work decided at this point UI - please provide a bug for this so we can track polish </td> </tr>
</td>	</td> </tr> </table> JDT Core Bugzilla Description 108087 Java conventions default formatter settings confused 118217 Change 'unused parameters' warning to only work on private or final methods to avoid false positives. JDT Debug Bugzilla Description 128074 Cannot format stack trace 123589 Unexpected switch to empty editor when using scrapbook 123588 Loosing key binding in scrapbook page 130534 add a "collapse all" to the tree's toolbar 128558 support variables in port and host fields of Remote Java Applications 77125 preference for determing how Java breakpoints are created - to suspend thread or entire VM 125768 Support to display breakpoints in rulers of external edtiors: 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 80746 filter exceptions in anonymous classes of X when filtered on X 89474 support to edit attributes of multiple archives at once 110837 properly specify bootpath when launching to avoid problems with crypto applications 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) DEBUG - please provide a bug for this so we can track polish Undo/Redo: We don't currently support undo/redo in the Scrapbook or Display view, which has made a few users angry DEBUG - please provide a bug for this so we can track polish JDT Text Bugzilla Description 95619 [5.0][content assist] Function parameter assist does not work with some parameterized types 92371 [content assist] Parameter guessing could also propose expressions for parameters of array types 41189 [hovering] Editor tooltip size too small for title text (3 votes) 125677 [navigation] @category not standing out enough in Java Outline view 91500 Improve the NLS tooling, especially existing hover and linking features to Eclipse string externalization support (2 votes) JDT UI Bugzilla Description 129929 IDE no longer responsive when JUnit tests are running 129925 [JUnit view] Hierarchical+failures should not show more than just failures 130106 [junit] Hierarchical mode sometimes show testcase in progress and sometimes not 130107 [junit view] Hierarchical mode not properly rebuilding the tree 136572 134078 134305 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. New Java Perspective (old one becomes the 'Classic Java Perspective') 119259 provide a way to get fully qualified class name into clipboard 108256 [refactoring] [ltk] Refactoring preview does not correctly highlight 5.0 code [refactoring] 122527 [build path] Offer a SWT container in JDT 135279 [refactoring] improve order of refactoring actions 135285 [source actions] improve order of source actions