On 05/28/2014 11:18 PM, Daniel Megert
wrote:
> Even just showing
a link on the warning pop-up to the Project/Workspace preference
page to
customize warning would be a very good thing.
Maybe you're using CDT? If you
use JDT
this is there for quite some time:
And the button on the left allows
to
configure how the problem is shown in the editor.
I didn't know that... That's pretty cool to understand that most
good ideas we repeat now are already implemented somewhere in
Eclipse.
Now the question is more, how comes that such a tool isn't known
from some (most?) of us? I'm pretty sure that the "F2 to focus" is
to blame. I never hit F2, it's too far away from the space bar. And
moreover, I didn't expected something so cool to be hidden, so I
never thought that focusing was providing so much new powers. The
current "F2 to focus" message doesn't tease me enough to make me
actually hit F2 and see what it's worth.
That's a general criticism I'd make to Eclipse IDE (similarly to the
some others UX things we already discussed there): some big powers
are hidden, difficult to guess, difficult to access, forgotten. For
this specific example, what would it cost to show the whole popup by
default, with an option "F2 for shorter version" ? A few pixels lost
on screen when hovering? It's a very low-cost for highlighting those
cool informations without additional effort.
Also, those icons are very complex, and I wouldn't click on them
before hovering and checking what's the tooltip is. So why not
directly showing them directly with a description? Adding them as
quickfix would provide that and would append those 2 actions to the
list of quick fix.
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