No. I'm not planning any big pieces of work until the new JDT index is finished, and that still has a long way to go.
As for small pieces of work, my queue is full for quite some time:
I'm planning to finish fixing Elena's forms patch, finish my SWT inspection tool for PDE, and address the performance problems in the workbench's root progress monitor.
- Stefan
Stefan, I completely agree. Are you planning to work on Bug 497428
during the 4.7 release?
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Stefan Xenos <sxenos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As long as it's a dialog box, I agree with your suggestion. However, if we
> were to implement https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=497428 then
> it would make sense to have an apply button since it would be easy and
> convenient to leave the preference pages open while doing other things.
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:16 AM Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think you need to ask this question to a wider audience. Removing that
>> button could cause mass confusion to the millions of Eclipse users used to
>> having it there. Or maybe not.
>>
>> Doug.
>>
>> On 2016-07-12, 1:11 PM, "platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
>> Lars Vogel" <platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
>> lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >Friends of Platform UI,
>> >
>> >Our preference pages have an "Apply" button.
>> >
>> >AFAIK the current behavior is:
>> >
>> >Apply does trigger preference listeners and leaves the preference dialog
>> >open
>> >OK triggers the preference listeners and closes the preference dialog
>> >
>> >Personally as an IDE user I get confused by this button. I feel like I
>> >always need to press "Apply" before pressing OK which is of course not
>> >true.
>> >
>> >I suggest to remove this extra button and only leave OK to apply the
>> >changes and close the dialog. I don't think the option to apply the
>> >preference values immediately without leaving the dialog is very
>> >valuable for our users. The only "real" use case I'm aware of is for
>> >switching themes to preview the result.
>> >
>> >For me this scenario is actually bad, I tend to always press "Apply"
>> >before "OK" I actually suffer from the costs of switching CSS's twice.
>> >
>> >Thoughts?
>> >
>> >Best regards, Lars
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