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Bug 34026 - "Display As" is too invisible?
Summary: "Display As" is too invisible?
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: debugger
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Java (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@debugger
URL:
Keywords: UI
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-05-29 20:03 UTC by David-john Burrowes
Modified: 2010-04-29 09:13 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description David-john Burrowes 2003-05-29 20:03:40 UTC
A second-hand report says that a user was not able
to "discover" the Display As item in the
contextual menus of the variables or watch views.

Two things that might be done to help address this
are:
1) Display As should be put in the main menu.
2) It might be good to put Display As in all the
contextual menus there, and where nothing can be
changed this would have a submenu with one item
that says soemthing like "Normal Display". This
would help reduce the impression that the contents
of the contextual menu "change" in random situations.
Comment 1 David-john Burrowes 2003-06-04 22:01:53 UTC
On reflection, doing #2 might be the right thing to do, but this has
implications for all the conextual menus in the debugger, and so this
needs to be considered more "globally".
Comment 2 David-john Burrowes 2003-08-21 01:22:01 UTC
To respond to my added comment, if this has implications for the other
debugging menus, then they should be changed too (and I'll file issues
on those as I find them).  I dont think menu items should be so
context-sensitive.  Our general user data indicates folks are confused
by too much context-sensitivity.  In any case, I just filed an issue
#35533 for #2 here.  The first point, that Display As ought to be
available in the main menu, remains true. 
Comment 3 Martin Entlicher 2005-05-13 10:58:44 UTC
I do not think that "Display As" should go into the main menu. I do not see a
reasonable place for it.
Closing as wontfix and leaving issue #35533 to implement...
Comment 4 Quality Engineering 2010-04-29 09:13:41 UTC
Verified ... and Closing all issues resolved into NetBeans 6.7 and earlier.