[e4-dev] Kevin's CSS priorities

[Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

These are my personal CSS priorities for 0.9.  The main goals are:

A) What is required for the self-hosting
workbench in 0.9.

B) Support other adopters in the community,
such as Kai.

C) Establishing a stable (though incomplete)
baseline of CSS support as a known quantity for people to investigate.
Grow the community.


To address these, here's the order of
things that I plan to work on.  Note, these are my priorities,
of how I'm going to spend my workday time.  You may have a
different set of priorities.  This email is an attempt to discuss
how these might be shared.  

To track the work, I'm setting the M4
milestone on the matching bugs.  Since it's wrong to set a milestone
and not have a real owner (i.e. can't remain 'inbox'), I've also taken
ownership.  But I'm willing to share :)  If you want to work
on any of these, feel free to take ownership of the bug, or comment that
you're working on a patch, to avoid duplication effort. This isn't a complete
list and is likely to change.


1) Get CSS background images working
in the OSGi context.  This is in support of (B).
See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=277471.

2) Margins.  We'd like to be able
to add a bit of space between widgets using CSS margins.  This is
in support of (A).
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=264256

3) Style sheet switching.  Will
probably just steal Kai's work :)  There is likely some kind of shared
support we'll want to have.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=278877
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=278490

4) A new CTabFolder look. This is in
support of (A).
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=278880

5) Update the wiki/documentation.  This
is in support of (C).
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=267439
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=278869

6) Architectural change to provide singleton
support.  This one speaks to (C) in providing a much cleaner (and
leaner) architecture.  As it's not required for (A) it's lower on
my list of how I can allocate my time, but I do think it's very important.
 I also feel bad because I keep pushing it off and Angelo has spent
much time in thinking about it.  It would need to happen soon though
to avoid destabilizing the base too close to 0.9.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=263218

Regards,
Kevin