Re: [platform-ui-dev] M2 is next week and some experiences with Android

[Michael Scharf <Michael-Scharf@xxxxxx>]

Hi Lars,

this mail introduces an unnecessary complexity in the communication:

- by talking in one mail about two totally unrelated issues
  it is very hard to follow only one of them

- by sending the same mail to two lists causes me to see
  some of the mails twice and on e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx it
  lookes like you were talking to yourself

I think it's good to avoid both ;-)


Michael

On 2015-09-10 19:39, Lars Vogel wrote:
> Dear friends of Eclipse Platform UI and e4,
> 
> Platform UI:
> 
> Next week is milestone week, so anything cool and urgent you want to
> see in M2 should be closed in the next days. We are also relatively
> light on N&N entries, so if you have developed something cool, please
> add it there.
> 
> But maybe M2 was our cleanup milestone, we did some great clean-up
> work (compatibility, SWT TreeTable, Boolean.valueOf and others) which
> removed lots of garbage from our code.
> 
> I think it is great that more committers are getting active with
> Gerrit reviews, I especially noticed that Dirk was super active with
> reviews. Thanks to everyone who got involved with Gerrit reviews.
> 
> Android Studio:
> 
> On a completely unrelated note, I'm doing Android work this week and
> I'm surprised in which bad condition Android Studio is.
> 
> Lots of rendering issues and crashes. Hard for me to say whats causing
> that, but from where I'm looking we are way more stable and faster
> compare to it. It feel similar bad as the Eclipse Mars on SWT GTK3.
> 
> Also the UI seem to show blocking dialogs all the time, I start loving
> Eclipse even more for our Jobs framework which currently gets
> improvements from Stefan and Sergey. Thanks for that work, I can tell
> first hand that this makes a difference if it is not there / used.
> 
> What is really cool in Android Studio is its ability to increase the
> editor font size easily, its full screen mode and its auto-save
> feature. We already have bugs for these features targeted for 4.6 and
> I'm looking forward to offer the nice features of AS without the very
> annoying bugs of it.
> 
> Best regards, Lars
> 
> P.S. Next week I'm planning to work full time on platform, so I hope
> to get more done.
>