Re: [wtp-dev] WTP Preferences

[Chris Brealey <cbrealey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Naci,
is it the number of top-level preference
categories, or the organization within and amongst them, that you're more
concerned about?

I'd be a bit wary about placing all
our preferences under one top-level category. It's one category for the
user to go to, however, Web Tools is pretty big and covers a few major
domains or "skill sets" - More than one or two, and less than
the number of components in WTP. One or two categories might actually obscure
the path to these domain preferences. I would tend towards structuring
our preferences - most especially the categories at the top which the user
first sees - around the major domains in the WTP, such as...

1. Server
2. Database
3. Web (and Web services?)
4. XML
5. J2EE

Immediate subcategories of the above
could be based more closely on the subsystems in David's architecture overview
document. http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/arch_and_design/ArchitectureOverview.html.
(PS: There are a few "stragglers" like validation and internet.
Would it be taboo to add things like that under Eclipse's existing "General"
category?)

Just throwing some more ideas into the
pot here.

Cheers - CB.

Chris Brealey
Rational Studio Java Web Services, IBM Canada Ltd.
D3-275, D3/ENX/8200/MKM, 8200 Warden Avenue, Markham, Ontario, Canada,
L6G 1C7
cbrealey@xxxxxxxxxx, 905.413.6038, tieline:969.6038, fax:905.413.4920

Michael Elder <mdelder@xxxxxxxxxx>
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02/17/2005 08:32 AM

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Naci,

      The single category approach would make it easier
for users to find
preferences -- afterall, end users shouldn't need to be aware of the
component organization of the project just to setup preferences. So my
vote
is for option 2.



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Thursday, February 17, 2005 7:47 AM
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From: Naci Dai <naci.dai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [wtp-dev] WTP Preferences



Comitters,

I believe we need to reorganize the component pereferences ui, currently
our components add new categories and preferences pages without too much
organization.

Some suggestions are divide them by project or components or some
combination:

1) WST
Editors
WS
Server

1) JST
Servers
EJB
WS
           ..

Another option is to use a project wide category

WTP
Editors
  XML
  JSP
  ..
 WS
 EJB

Finally we should have an "Experimental category we can use daring
prototyping"

Any thoughts?
Naci Dai,
Managing Director

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