Re: [e4-dev] modernizing the workbench visual design and remaining a goo

[Susan Franklin McCourt <susan_franklin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Elias.
Great screencast! I found that the live demo really helped, in particular emphasizing how the ribbon groupings depict the perspective switch. I found that the perspective change seems less "jarring" to me when selected that way, though I'd have to really use it to confirm this feeling. It was also cool to see the menu bar popping in.

We have numerous bugs about using the ribbon, but I didn't see one tracking the question of "should we use this in the Eclipse SDK UI?" so I opened one. [1]. I marked it with a 4.0 milestone, but I realize there's no technical reason it would have to be in 4.0. I do think that it will become interesting to consider the ribbon organization when considering the other visual design changes for 4.0 [2].

susan

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=298481
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=293481

Elias Volanakis ---12/19/2009 03:57:17 PM---On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Susan Franklin McCourt < susan_franklin@xxxxxxxxxx

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On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Susan Franklin McCourt <susan_franklin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Also, do you have a link (blog, bug, whatever) to the preferred place where we can monitor your experiments in the ribbon space? Fun to watch....

Susan and e4-dev,

I've begun to blog about my ribbon experiments (with a short screencast): http://eclipsenuggets.blogspot.com

The code is available on github under EPL (http:/github.com/elias42/ribbonide), but it still needs some work before I could ship something genuinely useful. 

Technically it is based on Eclipse 3.5.x. It provides an application for the IDE that adds the ribbon widget via the window advisor and a custom presentation. My goal is to flesh these things out over the holidays.

Elias.
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