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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Started the Platform UI Roadmap 4.7

Sounds good Dirk, IMHO your points fit well into the "Code cleanup,
Simplify platform API and simplification of the committer and
contributor workflow" item.

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Dirk Fauth <dirk.fauth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have planned to work on the services. Tom and I have talked a lot about
> moving some of the services and annotations in e(fx)clipse to the platform
> itself. We might also need to think about refactoring of what we already
> have in the platform. But the details need to be discussed.
>
> I also wanted to look into the menu renderers again.
>
> Greez,
> Dirk
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mickael,
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> I added "Reducing cost of basic support for new languages" as target.
>> That item would be a big win for our extenders and users.
>>
>> The other items fit IMHO well under the Simplify and improve the user
>> experience umbrella. Feel free to add a textual description and
>> references to these bugs under this point.
>>
>> Best regards, Lars
>>
>> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Although I cannot commit to any result or schedule, I have in my plans
>> > to
>> > contribute to have the text editor supporting coloration and
>> > content-assist
>> > without the need to create a new editor, for example relying on textmate
>> > grammars, but probably allowing to hook up any coloration/content-assist
>> > strategy to the text editor.
>> > The idea would be that the Text Editor could provide some basic features
>> > for
>> > most file types without the need to specialize it and to create a
>> > specific
>> > editor, but only relying on external services or an internal registry of
>> > grammars to add that behaviour.
>> > Tom Schindl and Angelo Zerr have already made some work on this topic,
>> > and
>> > here is the current entry point or this story
>> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=486961 .
>> > I believe this is a big topic that could be titled "Reducing cost of
>> > basic
>> > support for new languages"
>> >
>> > Some other bugs/topics I'm interested in that will probably affect
>> > Platform/UI
>> > * https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=489540 and
>> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=102527 , is a sub-topic of
>> > the
>> > user experience topic that I would call "Make the IDE forgiving mistakes
>> > and
>> > helpful for poor users". In general, I'll try to be careful about which
>> > error report and quickfixes can help the users directly in the IDE
>> > rather
>> > than forcing them to go read bad answers and StackOverflow.
>> > * https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=489719 and maybe even
>> > considering a "Welcome Questionnaire" like Oomph initiated, but maybe
>> > more
>> > at the Platform UI/IDE level. This would be also a sub-topic of UX, that
>> > could be title "You're more and more welcome!"
>> > * https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=489799 and
>> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=489719 (again), also in
>> > the UX
>> > I guess, about making it comfortable and productive to have Eclipse as
>> > default editor in the OS.
>> > --
>> > Mickael Istria
>> > Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat
>> > My blog - My Tweets
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