| RE: [mylar-dev] about temporary unfilter feature |
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From my comment on https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=124259#c13 it
makes the UI considerably
more complicated, and this is a new interaction style so it has to stay
as simple as possible. It it will be very easy to get into a state where parts
of the tree are unfiltered. even though they are not interesting. The purpose
of Alt+click is like Ctrl+O, to help the user quickly find something related
not currently visible. If you
have a compelling use case for keeping more than one node unfiltered please
describe it in detail. To elaborate: the use case that Alt+click
supports is to find an element that you are looking for without having to
toggle the Apply Mylar button. In the latest, if you keep holding on to
Alt, you can go all the way from a project root to a Java method in this way.
You can keep pressing Alt+click on as many nodes as you like, and unfilter as
many parts of the tree as you like until you find that element (e.g. multiple
packages if you don’t know which package a file is in). But as soon
as you let go of the Alt button the tree will spring back into showing you only
what’s interesting. In it’s normal mode (without Alt having
been pressed), you should always be able to ‘trust’ the view to
show you only what’s interesting, not a mixture of stuff that you may
have unfiltered a long time ago. You can just go back and unfilter that
again if needed. If you have a use case that this doesn’t
support please describe it in detail. You will also need to propose how
we could preserve this key property: reliably showing only what’s
interesting. Mik From:
mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of bin Wang Hi, I still suggest to support many unfiltered
nodes. Users can toggle it by alt+click. The current implment only
supports only one temporary unfilter node. Somethimes, I really want to see all the children
under two or more nodes. Although currently we can unfilter more than one node
temporarily. But If we open a file, the temporary unfilter is cancel. Again,
there is a problem in current imlemenation, if user press ALT, he can't folder
a node/package. |