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Summary: | Menu Window > Debugging > Debugging is confusing | ||
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Product: | debugger | Reporter: | _ krystyna <krystyna> |
Component: | Code | Assignee: | issues@debugger <issues> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | blocker | CC: | blaha, jrojcek |
Priority: | P2 | ||
Version: | 6.x | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: |
Description
_ krystyna
2008-08-15 19:29:17 UTC
This is not a bug, because the name is what it was intended to be -> changing to RFE Looking to the main menu, I am not sure that this is a real problem for a real user. When the submenu name is the same as one of its items, it can be interpreted that this item is the 'main' one. This is what we probably want to say. Anyway, if we think this is a problem, we can try to find a different name for this window either only used in main menu (this is what profiler does) or used for both main menu and window tab (if short enough). My opinion is that this is not worth doing. I don't think that using the same name for menu item as the name used for the parent menu is a problem. We use it for the top level - "Debug" and "Debug Project", or "Run" and "Run Project". OTOH, looking at the menu, "Debugging" seems strange as a name for a window. Window name should refer to a _thing_, like the other windows do, e.g. Watches, Variables, Stack, etc.. But "Debugging" is an activity. E.g. "Debugger" or "Program Counter" or "Call Stack", or some other name that denotes the function of the window would be better. This does not seem to be a problem. |