Re[2]: [platform-ui-dev] 2.1 M4 Plan posted

[Marco Qualizza <mqualizza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Answers inlined)

> Well, actually, you're right -- we don't like the editors dialog too much. 
>  We feel it is too modal, too hidden, and too difficult to get at for 
> mouse users.
> However, it has been hard to replace, since it does provide functionality 
> not available elsewhere.

> It would be interesting to know which features of the current editors 
> dialog you find most useful.  Do you use it just for switching, or do you 
> make use of some of the other features.

I use it both for switching, and for closing the other editors that I have
open (when I'm going to selectively close a large number of editors).
Personally, I find the ability to Select Clean Editors and Invert Selection
(at the click of a button) to be very useful.  I've never actually used the
Save Selected Editors function -- I tend to do that from the editor itself.

> Is being able to see the full path important?

Not always, but it's useful when I have multiple files with the same name
opened up...


> We're hoping that the editors drop-down will provide equivalent 
> functionality.
<snip>

The added functionality sounds great, and the ability to toggle paths is
perfect. :-)

> We're still facing a couple of issues with the drop-down though.  Unlike 
> the editors dialog, it will not be able to show editors across all 
> windows.  And we're debating how it should work when you have two editor 
> workbooks.  Each workbook will have the drop-down (in the same way that 
> each workbook has tabs).  Should it show only the editors for the single
>  workbook, or for all editors in the window?

What's a workbook?





> Marco Qualizza <mqualizza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent by: platform-ui-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 11/26/02 10:59 AM
> Please respond to platform-ui-dev

 
>         To:     Nick Edgar <platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>         Subject:        Re: [platform-ui-dev] 2.1 M4 Plan posted


> So, once again, we're going to lose the editors dialog.  *grin* You guys
> really don't like that thing, do you?  I mean, this is the second time 
> that
> you've killed it off.  What's going to replace the functionality offered 
> by
> the dialog?

>> The plan for 2.1 Milestone 4 (Dec. 13) has been posted to the Platform 
> UI 
>> team page:
>> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-ui-home/main.html


>> 2.1 Development Effort - Milestone 4 (December 13, 2002)
>> Performance improvement, with a focus on startup time, space usage, and 
>> scalability. 
>> See PRs tagged with performance keyword and milestone 2.1 M4. 
>> Bug fixing - address P1 and P2 PRs 
>> Improvements to editor management (dealing with many open editors) 
>> add drop-down to the right of the tabs, showing all open editors 
>> drop-down replaces editors dialog 
>> drop-down has key binding (Ctrl+Shift+W) 
>> preference for amount of tab compression (none, low, medium, high) 
>> preference for tabs in single row vs. multiple 
>> preference for number of tabs visible (shows most recently used N) 
>> editors view, having same look and feel as the drop-down except in a 
> view 
>> Refinement of UI for customizable keybindings 
>> UI changes for Flexible Project Structure (see the Core docs) 
>> Improvements to ordering and order stability in action sets (bugs 16282 
> and 18357) 
>> Preference to bring Tasks view to front when new problems found (bug 
> 2066) 
>> Experimental work items (may not surface in the milestone build): 
>> Table of contents in wizards 
>> Investigate lazy update of views (bug 27084) 
>> Dropped items: 
>> Floating views (from M3). This investigation is paired with the work on 
>> cheat sheets, which has been defered until after 2.1. 


>> Nick

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