Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] Reminder: Conference Call: Wednesd

[Vineet Sinha <vineet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin McGuire wrote:
>  >> - Eclipse could provide Search UI for both old and new concepts and 
> not sacrificing any of them.
>
> My thought was that we could do it as a tweaklet which would allow 
> people to experiment with it.  That could also be considered as a 
> delivery vehicle if it was decided not to make it the default.  I 
> believe tweaklets are the right way to provide opt-in feature changes 
> (v.s. the old approach of adding preferences).  Given that we now have 
> this lovely P2 work, people can and will hang onto their workspaces 
> longer, so my hope is tweaklets become a more common mechanism.
>
> It'd be cool to see a variety of tweaklets from the community, available 
> for people to customize their IDE with, much as they do with Firefox 
> add-ons.


Kevin, Tweaklets seem interesting and I have been wanting more 
information on them. Is it to (a) eliminate the preferences, or (b) the 
recommended way to use internal UI api's or (c) something else? Is there 
a e-mail/newsgroup post that I should be looking at?

Vineet