[
Date Prev][
Date Next][
Thread Prev][
Thread Next][
Date Index][
Thread Index]
[
List Home]
|
Re: [ide4edu-dev] Initial Java Project Comments
|
We're trying to address the menu clutter by removing as much
functionality as we can. Unfortunately, that still leaves a lot of
confusing menus. I understand that "capabilities" might help us with the
clutter; apparently, this concept groups menus/toolbar items/etc. and
allows them to be turned off. I haven't spent enough time with
capabilities myself to know how to leverage them.
We wrestled with this early on. If we make views in the perspective with
big shiny buttons on them, the user will naturally gravitate toward them
and away from the menus. Maybe this solves the problem for us.
Agree/disagree?
I'd like to see a prototype of "big shiny buttons" in the Java Lite
Package Explorer. Or elsewhere in the IDE. Even better would be some
out-of-the-box thinking.
I agree that the welcome screen is useless. How can we make it useful?
I believe that the images in the help are JPG. The lesson here is to use
PNG or GIF for screenshots. JPG is good for photographs. A patch with
new and improved images would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Wayne
cmatheso@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have a couple more comments on the java lite eclipse perspective.
Perhaps it will give us something to work on for the code sprint :).
1. I found some UI inconsistency - If i go File -> New -> Project...
Java Project. It launches the regular eclipse new project menu, and
not the JLite one. Actually, if I was an inexperienced user, the vast
menu bar would probably be more confusing then its worth... not sure
if that is even modifiable?
2. The splash screen is quite useless :(.
- The overview link has 1 sentence - it could use some looking at I
think. There must surely be more to explain about this project then
that?..
- The tutorial button loads an empty page. Not a single tutorial..
- Also, the "Go to workbench" link doesn't work.
3. I opened the JLite help.. it seems alright. The first picture
however has really *really* bad image quality. Its a little
off-putting. Would it be worth organizing the help a little more too?
Instead of putting everything in 1 file, perhaps separate / index? So
i could click Help -> JLite -> New Project, for example, and it would
load the picture + instructions?
Thoughts / comments?
Thanks,
Cory Matheson.
_______________________________________________
ide4edu-dev mailing list
ide4edu-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/ide4edu-dev
--
Wayne Beaton, The Eclipse Foundation
http://www.eclipse.org
I'm going to EclipseCon!
http://www.eclipsecon.org
