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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Browser-like navigation in Eclipse UI?
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Cagatay,
We always welcome requests from the community who want to help fix known
problems (from bugzilla), help with the implementation of items committed
for the 2.0 plan, or come up with a proposal/prototype for new features.
This is the correct way to go about it.
This navigation problem is something the ui team is aware of and has had
some discussions about it. We would like to hear your views on it and what
you propose. The scope of this problem is quite large as ui team has
discovered.
The ui team is in the process of getting the the nox plug-in to take a look
at it.
You are welcome to continue with your work to come up with a proposal and
discuss (in this mailing list) design ideas you have. And, to collect
"requirements" about what is needed. Also, the solution must not only focus
on Java, but be generic enough to work with all the ways people are using
Eclipse. A quick look (on the web) at some usability work done on
navigation may prove to be useful.
Note that in less then 6 weeks, eclipse will be in code freeze for the 2.0
release. Coming up with an acceptable solution will take some time, so this
will end up most likely being a feature in a future release past 2.0 (also
the fact that the ui team will be pretty busy finishing up work for release
2.0).
If you are willing, you are welcome to take the lead on this problem. The
ui team members will help out with ideas/issues/requirements/etc as much as
they can. If you want to wait until the ui team is done with the 2.0
release and has more time to participate in what you are doing, then you
can help out with some of the open bugs in bugzilla.
Please let us know what your plan is and best of luck!
Thanks
Simon :-)
"Cagatay Kavukcuoglu"
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03/20/2002 12:49 AM
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platform-ui-dev
Hi,
I'd like to work on contributing browser style navigation to Eclipse UI.
I have a plugin you can get from http://sourceforge.net/projects/nox
that provides similar functionality, but I believe this is better
provided by the UI itself, more so after the recent changes to handling
of perspectives and the editor area.
I've been thinking about how to best provide this functionality in
Eclipse for some time. I wanted to hear what everyone here thinks before
actually writing code and see if this is feasible or even desired, so
here goes:
A navigation bar that would be anchored above all the workbooks in the
editor area, providing back and forward drop-downs along with a label
that shows the fully qualified name of the active editor's input.
Ideally, all navigation within the workbench such as:
- opening files
- performing any action on Java elements which results in opening
editors or revealing selections in an editor
- performing any action on an object that implements IAdaptable
which results in opening editors or revealing selections in an editor
should be visible in the history. At the very least, editor inputs for
all opened files should be in the history (this would be very limited
but have a correspondingly simple implementation).
The navigation bar can also provide a more visible UI for changing
working sets that apply to a workbench page (considering the latest
working set RFC) and pinning editors so they won't be reused.
I have some design ideas that I also want to discuss if this seems
doable to the folks here.
Cagatay
--CK.
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