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2. Activation model between editors and views is problematic. (Not sure of PR #) We have many editors that have supporting views. Page Designer is a great example of this. The "web" perspective has Thumbnail, Gallery, and Color Palette views that are used very closely with the PageDesigner Editor. When these views are activated, the PageDesigner gets deactivated and all of its toolbar contributions are removed. Since Page Designer has 3 rows of toolbar icons when its toolbar gets deactivated all of the views in the perspective re-layout. This makes it almost impossible to use the color palette and very difficult to use the Thumbnail view. To really appreciate the severity of this problem, you have to see it. NOTES: GDA (7/16/01 6:54:00 PM) Deferred to 2.0 - WSAD advised
PRODUCT VERSION: 0.9
The activation model has been changed to address this request. In 1.0, when the user switched from an editor to a view (e.g. Outline) the Toolbar contributions were still visible but deactivated, the editor contributions were removed and the global actions targeted the active part. In 2.0, when the user swithces from an editor to a view (e.g. Outline) all contributions are preserved and target the active part. If the active part provides an implementation for these actions, they may be enabled. This will enable the Outline view better integration with the editor and still preseve the "actions target the active part" semantics. If the active part does not provide an implementation for an action it is disabled.
