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Bug 198734 - Debug Variables Icons
Summary: Debug Variables Icons
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: php
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Debugger (show other bugs)
Version: 7.1
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P4 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Ondrej Brejla
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-05-19 13:20 UTC by monk.e.boy
Modified: 2011-07-28 11:45 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description monk.e.boy 2011-05-19 13:20:20 UTC
The debug panel has various Icons. The most common being a green diamond, sometimes it has a dark green interior. Sometimes it is floating in a little fish tank. These mean nothing to me :( I often wonder they are trying to tell me something important. "What? What are you telling me?", I ask of them. When I dream, they haunt the dark places.

...and I'd like an option to remove them.
Comment 1 Petr Pisl 2011-05-19 15:11:37 UTC
I'm cc'ing Jano, who works on UI for NetBeans. Also this is not P2. I would say P4.
Comment 2 monk.e.boy 2011-05-19 15:29:11 UTC
I only added it as P2 cos I thought I'd be a quick task to complete. It is one of those death by a 1,000 paper cuts type of bugs :)

Keep up the fantastic work :)
Comment 3 jrojcek 2011-05-19 15:39:45 UTC
If you mean icons inside the Variables window, they communicate variable type. As it is impossible to design self explanatory icons in this case, tooltips should state the variable type, or what the icon really mean. Otherwise users have no way to find out what the icons mean.

The tooltip should look something like:

"Local Variable: <existing tooltip content>"

If you mean something else, please post a screenshot. Thanks!
Comment 4 monk.e.boy 2011-05-19 15:45:20 UTC
Those are the icons I mean. There is already a type column adjacent to the variable name, so my vote is to optionally remove the icon.
Comment 5 OndrejBrejla 2011-07-18 14:46:36 UTC
It's not defect...changing type to enhancement.