Re: [eclipse-pmc] [epp-dev] Roll-out of the Solstice Intro/Welcome theme

["Daniel Megert" <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> First, each EPP
package, like the Platform and SDK products, define their own custom product
definitions. 

Thanks for that education. I assumed
they somehow inherit from the platform.

Dani



From:      
 Brian de Alwis <briandealwis@xxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 Eclipse Packaging Project
<epp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:      
 eclipse-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:      
 30.03.2016 04:59
Subject:    
   Re: [eclipse-pmc]
[epp-dev] Roll-out of the Solstice Intro/Welcome        theme
(was         Re:        Solstice
Intro/Welcome theme)
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Hi Dani.

Is there a bug to include the bw png
in the SDK?

Bug 489778?  If you mean CQ, no, there isn’t.  I
didn’t think one was required since it’s an Eclipse image taken from
the Solstice
web theme for projects to use for their web
pieces.

If we set the new theme as default,
I don't think the EPPs have to do any additional work. I will review bug
489778 tomorrow.

That’s not the case, for two reasons.

First, each EPP package, like the Platform and SDK products,
define their own custom product definitions.  Since the “introBrandingImage”
product property doesn’t support referencing the image defined elsewhere,
the purple logo was already copied into each package (as intro-eclipse.png),
and fixing “introBrandingImage” required much more work than to just
copy in the B&W logo, I chose the simplest solution and following the
precedent of the purple logo and copied the 4666-byte B&W logo into
each package.

We could avoid copying in both images if each of the packages
used the Platform or SDK product definition.  But each packages defines
their own product definition so as to have custom branding. 

         <property
           
  name="introBrandingImage"
           
  value="product:intro-eclipse.png">
         </property>
         <property
           
   name="introTitle"
           
   value="Welcome to the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers">
         </property>
         <property
           
   name="introBrandingImageText"
           
   value="Eclipse Project">
         </property>

Changing the introBrandingImage to reference the B&W
logo isn’t ideal in that it may be illegible should the user choose a
different theme (as the purple logo is for the Solstice theme). But that
is true of any theme change: the purple logo may not look right for other
themes.  And I don’t think users change their themes in practice.

Second, each package needs some work to define the quick-start
actions that make sense for that package.  For the  Testing package,
for example, it makes sense to have actions for creating new test projects.
 The _javascript_ package, on the other hand, has actions for creating
new Cordova projects and new Faceted Web projects.  The JEE package
would provide actions for creating Faceted Web projects too.  The
Committers package, like the RCP package, would provide actions for creating
Plug-in Projects.  

The extra work to adapt a package to the Solstice theme
is:

1.        To
adopt the Solstice theme:
1.        copy
in the B&W logo
2.        change
the introBrandingImage
3.        change
the theme in the plugin_customization.ini
2.        To
use the quicklinks:
1.        change
specify the INTRO_START_PAGE and INTRO_HOME_PAGE in their plugin_customization.ini
2.        configure
the quicklinks in their plugin.xml by extending the org.eclipse.ui.intro.quicklinks
extension point

We could avoid steps 1.1 – 1.3 and 2.1 by having the
packages use the org.eclipse.platform.ide product, but they’d lose the
custom branding.  And those steps are purely mechanical.  Step
2.2 would be required of all packages, regardless of whether they defined
their own product or not.

Brian.
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