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Bug 39031

Summary: icons aren't enough for editor and window switching
Product: platform Reporter: _ jrichard <jrichard>
Component: Window SystemAssignee: Martin Krauskopf <mkrauskopf>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: blocker CC: dsimonek, jglick
Priority: P3 Keywords: UI
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 50353    

Description _ jrichard 2004-01-21 03:38:12 UTC 
The icons just don't provide enough context
to decide where you are.

From nbui:

>> Annoying: icons just aren't enough for ctrl-`.
 Eclipse lists the
>> whole filename which is much more useful when
you aren't exactly sure
>> which editor you want and need some feedback.
>> 
> Agreed - should show the
TopComponent.toolTipText here, as the Documents 
> dialog does.

Yeah, the icons are sort of cute but useless
(especially if you havelots of files open, and
it's just lots of the same java file icon).
Comment 1 Martin Roskanin 2004-01-21 09:01:56 UTC 
Reassigning to openide...
Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2004-01-22 03:31:48 UTC 
This is window system.
Comment 3 Martin Krauskopf 2004-11-26 09:10:14 UTC 
Fixed. New Ctrl-Tab implementation shows filenames + full path in
status bar.
Comment 4 Jesse Glick 2004-12-01 18:18:39 UTC 
Yes, very nice I think.