Re: [geclipse-dev] welcome page after g-Eclipse installation

[Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I've to admit that I've seen that AFTER sending out the email. Initially 
I thought that we have to add some more declaration info to the documentation 
plug-in, but it seems to work right now.

But anyway, it's a reminder that we can provide real useful information to the 
first-time user with this kind of contribution.

Markus

On Saturday 09 June 2007 15:30, Thomas Köckerbauer wrote:
> Hi
>
> g-Eclipse already has contributions to the welcome page.
> It has:
> - an icon at the overview page which opens the documentation,
> - an icon at the tutorials page which opens the g-Eclipse cheat sheet
> overview,
> - an icon at the what's new page which opens the what's new page in the
> documentation
>
> The documentation pages however don't contain too much information right
> now...
>
>
> Thomas
>
> Am Freitag 08 Juni 2007 13:06:09 schrieb Markus Knauer:
> > Hi *,
> >
> > this is something that could be an interesting feature for us: Providing
> > a welcome page with content whenever someone installs one of the
> > g-Eclipse features into an existing Eclipse.
> >
> > Markus
> >
> >
> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> >
> > Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] Layering Europa Welcome content
> > Date: Monday 04 June 2007 23:58
> > From: Dejan Glozic <dejan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Europa project leads,
> >
> > This is a reminder that Eclipse User Assistance team provided an
> > enhancement in 3.3 to make the new features installed into the Eclipse
> > Platform more visible. For this to work, your corresponding features need
> > to contribute into Eclipse Welcome. If they do, Eclipse Welcome will
> > reopen upon installation restart and your contribution will be shown and
> > highlighted in the corresponding Welcome page.
> >
> > This features was added to address the issue of the fact that new
> > features tend to blend into Eclipse a bit too successfully :-), as raised
> > at this year's Eclipsecon. By making a welcome contribution, you will get
> > a chance to describe what your feature is all about to users and offer
> > links for further reading and/or Eclipse commands that belong to your
> > component.
> >
> > It is very easy to add a Welcome contribution: PDE provides a template
> > for that and UA has a short document describing how to do it
> > (http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-ua/documents/intro_3_3_features.
> >ht ml ). You should take advantage of this feature to improve
> > consumability of Europa, particularly for users who are adding new
> > features from the Europa update site after the initial install of the
> > SDK.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dejan Glozic, Ph.D.
> > Manager, Eclipse Development 1A
> > D1/R0Q/8200/MKM
> > IBM Canada Ltd.
> > Tel. 905 413-2745  T/L 969-2745
> > Fax. 905 413-4850
> >
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