Comments on: JDT/UI and Platform/Text M5 plan items http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/jdtui/2008/01/16/jdtui-and-platformtext-m5-plan-items/ The JDT/UI and Text team presents new API and features Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:06:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 By: Benno Baumgartner http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/jdtui/2008/01/16/jdtui-and-platformtext-m5-plan-items/#comment-41 Benno Baumgartner Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:30:38 +0000 http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/jdtui/2008/01/16/jdtui-and-platformtext-m5-plan-items/#comment-41 Yes, to left or to right, this seams to be the question. Fortunately we have a professional UI designer thinking about this and other issues at the moment. Our intention is, that the breadcrumb will be made available to other editors as well, later. The breadcrumb widget itself is implemented as a structured viewer and can be used independently of an editor. The viewer is in the jdt/ui layer and not API for now. Is it possible to invoke actions on your breadcrumb items? This seams to be the most tricky part. Yes, to left or to right, this seams to be the question. Fortunately we have a professional UI designer thinking about this and other issues at the moment. Our intention is, that the breadcrumb will be made available to other editors as well, later. The breadcrumb widget itself is implemented as a structured viewer and can be used independently of an editor. The viewer is in the jdt/ui layer and not API for now.

Is it possible to invoke actions on your breadcrumb items? This seams to be the most tricky part.

]]> By: Mik Kersten http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/jdtui/2008/01/16/jdtui-and-platformtext-m5-plan-items/#comment-40 Mik Kersten Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:47:21 +0000 http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/jdtui/2008/01/16/jdtui-and-platformtext-m5-plan-items/#comment-40 I've been looking forward to the rich hovers for a while, but now you've got me excited about the bread crumb bar. I find both the iTunes and Vista Windows Explorer bread crumb bars to be convenient and intuitive UIs. The bread crumb UI that we have on the Mylyn Task List has also been working quite well (http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/new/images/2.0/working-sets-switch.gif). We had to do some custom widgetery for that UI, and would like to improve it in the near future, so I'm wondering if there is a possibility for reuse between the two UIs. We also had a bunch of deliberation on whether the triangles should go to the right as they do on Vista, or to the left as both we have both chosen, and how they should animate to provide feedback. It's all very interesting stuff and I'll follow up more on bug. I’ve been looking forward to the rich hovers for a while, but now you’ve got me excited about the bread crumb bar. I find both the iTunes and Vista Windows Explorer bread crumb bars to be convenient and intuitive UIs. The bread crumb UI that we have on the Mylyn Task List has also been working quite well (http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/new/images/2.0/working-sets-switch.gif). We had to do some custom widgetery for that UI, and would like to improve it in the near future, so I’m wondering if there is a possibility for reuse between the two UIs. We also had a bunch of deliberation on whether the triangles should go to the right as they do on Vista, or to the left as both we have both chosen, and how they should animate to provide feedback. It’s all very interesting stuff and I’ll follow up more on bug.

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