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Bug 24036 - Menu item placement should be adjusted
Summary: Menu item placement should be adjusted
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: javaee
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTTP Monitor (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Ana.von Klopp
URL:
Keywords: UI
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-05-24 15:08 UTC by _ rkubacki
Modified: 2003-04-03 02:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description _ rkubacki 2002-05-24 15:08:43 UTC 
HTTP Monitor menu item is first one in Debug menu.
This is probably wrong.
Comment 1 Ana.von Klopp 2002-05-25 02:31:56 UTC 
Ah, that's because I place it relative to the other menu items. I
guess they've changed the name of the action that I try to go
underneath. I try to put it on the bottom of the menu normally :) 

David-John Burrowes has said that they would like to reserve the
debugging menu for "while debugging" type actions only, and that he
would prefer it if the monitor was a part of the output bar instead.
So I'm not sure whether it's worth fixing this right now or not? I'm
CC'ing David John on this so that he can give his opinion...

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Comment 2 David-john Burrowes 2002-05-29 01:07:43 UTC 
Yes, many of the debugger menu items are being moved and changed in 3.4.

It is true that I'm not sure the monitor should go in the debug menu.
 At the moment, one doesn't access any of the debugging views from
here or from the debug toolbar.  In the short term, I'd prefer that
this just be available in the View menu and that the monitor appear in
all the output windows.

I don't understand what the impact of not fixing this right now is.  

(Our hope is, in the 4.0 timeframe, to find a better way to manage all
the various debugger-related views).
Comment 3 _ rkubacki 2002-05-29 09:27:19 UTC 
IMO it is OK to have Monitor in Debug menu. But it is not the most
important function here so I think it is bad if it is first item.
Comment 4 David-john Burrowes 2002-05-29 17:21:23 UTC 
I don't think that this should go anywhere in the Debug menu at this time.
The reason for this is that none of the many other debugging views (sessions, threads, watches, stack, breakpoints, 
console, IO, etc.) are available from the Debug menu currently.  Why should the HTTP monitor be treated so specially?
Comment 5 Ann Sunhachawee 2003-02-20 20:02:56 UTC 
Let's take the two issues separately. The issue originally filed is
only about the placement in the View menu. 

Another issue about the placement in the Debug menu is captured in
issue 31236. 

As for the original issue, here is Jiri Mzourek's stance on where it
should be placed: between "Form Editor" and "Scripting Module". 

It would be good to have this addressed for Nevada/3.5, since this is
a UI regression.
Comment 6 Ana.von Klopp 2003-02-20 21:58:49 UTC 
I will fix this for Tegal. I note that I have the exact 
same statement in the layer.xml file re the actions, but it 
places it last on one menu and first on the other... Go 
figure.
Comment 7 Ann Sunhachawee 2003-02-21 16:43:08 UTC 
Any chance this can be addressed for Nevada as well? I consider it a
UI regression.
Comment 8 _ rkubacki 2003-02-21 16:49:58 UTC 
It should be easy - just need to declare order of files in XML layer
(and find the declaration of other items for their names before of course)
Comment 9 Ana.von Klopp 2003-02-26 00:43:28 UTC 
Fixed as requested.
Comment 10 Jason Rush 2003-04-03 02:02:22 UTC 
Verified in Nevada build 030401.