Category Archives: Common Navigator

If you are a project that uses the Common Navigator/Project Explorer, please be sure and test over the next week with the 3.5.2 RC2 build.  A few critical fixes have gone into the CNF and we need to know sooner … Continue reading →

In working on my company’s product I saw that the correct icons were appearing when the product was run in Ganymede, but not Galileo.  The problem is captured in bug 295803 and has to do with the selection of the … Continue reading →

As of N20090304-2000 (and 3.5M6) the CNF incompatibilities with prior released have been fixed, and what’s even better is the mechanism is cleaner and simpler to explain. bug 255793 bug 252293 I won’t elaborate right now for personal reasons (broken … Continue reading →

I have no outstanding bugs or enhancement requests related to DnD. Thanks to Dani Megert for helping me with many of the issues. Now it’s onto issues of priority and categorization for actions and sorting.  And a few other things.

Someone asked which bugs/enhancements I plan to address. I plan to address all of them (that are known to me — if I missed any, let me know).  The ones that are currently marked for M6 have a fix waiting … Continue reading →

In the next few days I intend to address as many of the CNF drag and drop defects as possible.  I have marked them all with “dnd” in the status whiteboard (search for Platform/UI/CommonNavigator).  The way I work is to … Continue reading →

With the M5 changes to the Common Navigator (are you sick about hearing about this yet?), the caching of the association between objects added by the content provider and the the navigator content extension has been temporarily removed.  The reason … Continue reading →

There are changes to the way the Common Navigator selects content extensions for label providers that might be incompatible with existing implementations.  These are in bug 252293 and are available in any I build after I20090125-2000.  So far so good.  … Continue reading →

Bug 252293 points out an issue that Common Navigator navigatorContent (extensions) (NCEs) are not properly invoked for the purpose of providing a label when the NCE overrides another. In the course of investigating this problem, I found a few issues … Continue reading →

I have spent time over the last days working on a number of Common Navigator issues.  I have also marked all of the bugs that I plan to address for the 3.4.1 cycle.  If there is anything else you want … Continue reading →