Eclipse Community Forums: Mylyn » Task context detail level

Help

Home

Home » Eclipse Projects » Mylyn » Task context detail level(is there a way to change it?)

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Task context detail level [message #536741]

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:40

Alexey

Messages: 5
Registered: May 2010

Junior Member

I've just started using Mylyn on my project, and while I find focused mode and task context to be an absolutely wonderful new thing in my development routine, there's one thing that bugs me about the way the task context is displayed in package explorer.

I never find myself looking at the methods and variables that get added to my context (I prefer to keep my classes small, and it's more comfortable to look at the methods and variables in the editor, after I open a class). However, often after some time working with a task, package explorer becomes cluttered with methods and variables that have been added to the context.

Sure, I can fold the classes and continue working, but it's quite annoying, considering I never look at methods and variables in package explorer.

What I'd love is to either stop methods and variables from being added to the context, or just have package explorer keep classes folded. Either would make me love the context system much more, so I'm really hoping this is possible.

So, I'd like to ask the following question: is it possible to use focused mode and have package explorer unfold only down to displaying classes, and not automatically unfold them to show the fields of a class after I start editing it?

Thanks.

[Updated on: Sun, 30 May 2010 16:42]

Report message to a moderator

Re: Task context detail level [message #536763 is a reply to message #536741]

Sun, 30 May 2010 18:51

Steffen Pingel

Messages: 706
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Great to hear that you like the task-focused interface. You could try hiding
members from the Package Explorer under Java > Appearance in the
preferences. There is no option to keep them collapsed but please feel free
to file a bug if hiding them is not sufficient for you.

Steffen

Alexey wrote:

> I've just started using Mylyn on my project, and while I find focused mode
> and task context to be an absolutely wonderful new thing in my development
> routine, there's one thing that bugs me about the way the task context is
> displayed in package explorer.
>
> I never find myself looking at the methods and variables that get added to
> my context (I prefer to keep my classes small, and it's more comfortable
> to look at the methods and variables in the editor, after I open a class).
> However, often after some time working with a task, package explorer
> becomes cluttered with methods and variables that have been added to the
> context.
>
> Sure, I can fold the classes and continue working, but it's quite
> annoying, considering I never look at methods and variables in package
> explorer.
>
> What I'd love is to either stop methods and variables from being added to
> the context, or just have package explorer keep classes folded. Either
> would make me love the context system much more, so I'm really hoping this
> is possible.
>
> So, I'd like to ask the following question: is it possible to use focused
> mode and never have package explorer unfold only down to displaying
> classes, and not unfold them to show their fields?
>
> Thanks.

--
Steffen Pingel
Committer, http://eclipse.org/mylyn
Senior Developer, http://tasktop.com

Report message to a moderator