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

[Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Vineet,

Tweaklets are a way to experiment with
new UI features which replace existing ones.  An example is Boris'
exploration of editor tab management; he did one that provides more of
a Firefox model of tab reuse and management.

Tweaklets work by providing a non-API
access point within existing platform code so that the substitute behaviour
can be inserted via an extension point. This way, incubator exploration
work can be layered above the platform in a low risk, low impact to the
platform, non future-API-binding manner.

I thought we had a page on this but
I can't find one.  The only reference I can find is in the UI incubator
page, http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI_Incubator.  In any case,
see org.eclipse.ui.internal.tweaklets.TabBehaviour as the example mentioned
above.

Kevin

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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
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