| Re: [platform-ui-dev] Context menu on Project Navigator not really contextual |
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We had a great discussion at the Eclipse Day Montreal last month about things like this. We asked the question, if you had conflicting requirements, do you work to make the beginner
user happy or the advanced user?
The answer is beginner user. Advanced users can figure out how to do things like customize menus, beginners can't. We need to make sure we're providing a user experience that rocks for the beginner user without forcing them to become advanced users too
soon ;)
In this case Mickael is correct, we need the menus to make sense to beginner users out of the box.
And I come to the customization issue from a different angle. As a product owner, I want to be able to control the menus from the plugin_customization.ini file because I don't trust plug-in developers to get this right and in so many cases today, they
don't get it right. I want the ability to fix up their mistakes without having to fork their code. I don't think that's possible right now, but we definitely need it.
Doug.
From: platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Mickael Istria [mistria@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 10:59 AM To: platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [platform-ui-dev] Context menu on Project Navigator not really contextual On 07/03/2014 04:00 PM, Eric Moffatt wrote:
Users want something that looks good out-of-the-box. They don't want to have to customize things, and many user will prefer applications that have the best defaults over those that are the most configurable. IMO, it would be more helpful to provide the ability to customize default menus for package providers. Is it already possible to customize menus through preferences and plugin_customization.ini files? |