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

["Nick Edgar" <Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxx>]

A workbook is the implementation term for a split editor area.  If you 
have multiple editors open, and drag the tab for one to the edge of the 
editor area, the editor area is split.  Each half is called an editor 
workbook in the implementation, although we never use this term in the UI.

Nick






Marco Qualizza <mqualizza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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(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>
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> 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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