From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Eugene Kuleshov
Sent: October 30, 2005 12:26 PM
To: Mylar developer discussions
Subject: Re: [mylar-dev] mylar
0.4.0 is now available
Mik,
I gave it a quick look and noticed few things:
-- Content from one of the issue categories that I previously had in Mylar's
Task List just disappeared. That was last category in the view, so it could be
again related to the glitch with restart from the update manager.
This is probably https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=107457
which indicates that task list saves need to be even more eager than they are to
be more robust to crashes and update manager restarts. Could you comment on
that report what kind of category it was (i.e. plan or bugzilla query) and what
disappeared from it?
-- "Task List" name for the view is somehow confusing with basic
Tasks view. Why don't you nme this view Mylar?
I’ve been going back and forth on this.
The name should be short and not get confused with the Tasks view, and indicative
of the fact that this is a task list. Note that if you only download the bugzilla
support you still get the task list but no Mylar UI, since the task list is
extended by the Mylar UI. But I’m tempted to change the name back to
Mylar Tasks, or possibly to Mylar Task List but the latter seems a bit long
because it does seem confusing with the word Mylar in there.
-- Activate and Deactivate actions should both appear in a pop-up menu in the
task list (it is already long enough)
They currently do appear in the popup if
you right click a task, right at the top of the list. If you don’t see
them consider uninstalling any old versions of Mylar in case there is a conflict.
-- New mylar icon is sort of blurry, which makes it look quite annoying in the
UI. At least on Windows
You can expect the icons to improve
slowly over the 0.4.x releases.
-- Web link feature in a "New Task" dialog is absolutely cool! Though
"Get Description" button doesn't show any progress and you can't see
if anything actually happening. With slow connection user may have to wait
10-20 seconds to actually get the description.
That is also unfortunate that you didn't manage to make drag-n-drop work
right from the web browser. ;-)
I entered these suggestions as bug reports:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=114401
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=114399
-- It would be nice Export task context would create an archive and not the
directory
Already a report, scheduling for 0.4.1: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=114162
-- Bugzilla-related actions should be in a pop-up menu. They look really out of
place in a view menu.
That makes sense—they moved off the
toolbar, which was getting too wide, into the local pull-down. Are you
suggesting moving them out of the pull-down to only appear in the pop-up?
-- Task editor titles are inconsistent between simple tasks (e.g. tasks with
web links) and bugzilla entries. Least one does not have full description in
the title. Long titles may look ugly at first glance, but description is a good
help when jumping between editors using Ctrl-F6 (or remapped to Ctrl-Tab like I
do)
Sounds good, scheduling for 0.4.1: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=114408
-- "Copy Description" action should be as simple as Ctrl-C, so as
Delete task should be just Del key.
Already a report, scheduling for 0.4.1: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=109536
-- I've noticed some strange random focus jump off the Task List view
(activating New... toolbar item). Looks like this is happening for long tasks,
when mouse rollover popup jumps in.
Already a report, scheduling for 0.4.1: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=107261
Otherwise it look really great! Please keep up the good work. :-)
regards,
Eugene
Mik Kersten wrote:
Mylar 0.4.0 is now available.
Please try it out and report any critical issues before the announcement
goes out to mylar-announce@xxxxxxxxxxx
early next week. At that time the new Mylar web site will also go live,
provide download information, and new flash videos will be made available.
This release marks the end of the UBC user study, and as such the update
sites have changed so be sure to remove the old ones and add those listed
below. Also note that the Bugzilla Client is now an optional feature that
can also be used standalone. There should be no problems updating over
the old versions of Mylar, but if you experience any troubles disable and uninstall
the old features.
·
Update
Site for Eclipse 3.2 users:
o
download.eclipse.org/technology/mylar/update-site/e3.2
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Update
Site for Eclipse 3.1 users:
o
download.eclipse.org/technology/mylar/update-site/e3.1
Community Contributions
A huge thanks goes to Wesley Coelho for implementing
linked tasks and making several other important Task List improvements.
Kimberley Peter provided some great advice on how to improve the Mylar icons
and UI design, some of which is visible in this release. Ed Burnette
provided useful input on streamlining linked task creation (first item below).
New &
Noteworthy
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Tasks can be linked to web pages
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Tasks can be linked to web
pages. For example, if you want a task to correspond to a Wiki page or
to a bug report copy the URL of the report, click the New Task button on the
Task List, and the URL will automatically be inserted in the Web Link
field. If you click Get Description the title of the page will be
inserted into the Description field. The task will appear with a Web
icon decorator, and will automatically bring up a Task Editor page that loads
the web link when opened.
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Pause and resume context capture
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Pause and resume task context
capture using the drop-down menu on the Task List. This can be useful
for quick diversions that don't warrant a new task. Also note that some
of the toolbar buttons have moved to the local pull-down.
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Task context indication
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If a task is inactive, but has
a context associated with it, the Activate widget appears lightly filled
(i.e. as bug 111722 below).
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Toggle auto folding
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Pressing the editor toolbar
button with the Mylar glasses on it will enable/disable Mylar's automatic
folding. This can be useful when needing to browse through the code, or
copy/paste code around (since Eclipse's folding support can cause odd
expansions when copying folded regions, bug 104648).
The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F.
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Show all filtered children
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When you are using filtering in a
Mylar view you have the option of temporarily showing all children of a
filtered node by Alt+clicking a node that is not currently selected.
For example, you can Alt+click a source folder, keep the Alt+key down, and
continue drilling down until you find a method of interest. To navigate using the keyboard alone use the Right Arrow key instead
of Alt+clicking, and the Down Arrow key to select elements.
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Task export
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The Mylar Task List and related
data can be exported, e.g. for backup purposes.
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