[news.eclipse.technology.ecf] Re: some progress

[Remy Suen <remysuen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:16:08 -0400, Alexander Malic wrote:
> - first of all, i allways need to manually connect to the servers. some
> option to automatically connect to a server would be great

This is a known enhancement request. Due to the modular nature of OSGi, 
which the Eclipse platform is built on top of, it is highly discouraged, 
if not frowned upon, for plug-ins to start when the workbench is started 
upon. Some sort of explicit opt-in mechanism would need to be created. 
Please refer to bug 181510.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=181510

> - i still
> have some connection credentials that didn't work, but there is no
> possibility to delete them. a preferences page with all the accounts
> would be great

There's an open request to "forget" passwords which may be in line with 
what you are looking for.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=196295

> - adding a contact can be done via add contact. when the
> contact is not online, there is no message or behaviour indicating that
> the contact was successfully added

>From looking at the code, it does appear to be a no-op. I suggest you 
file a bug.

> - when a contact accepts a request,
> eclipse needs to be restarted, to make the share-editor option available

Not clear to me why this is so. Could be a bug in the XMPP code. Please 
open a bug report if you can reproduce.

> - if i share a project with someone, the other side should be able to
> choose if he/she wants the project to be shared in the actual workspace
> or choose some other workspace -> the project will be copied to the
> workspace

This is non-trivial to implement in my opinion. Copying files is not 
grossly difficult per se though it complicates the handling of resources 
a bit as the two clients would have to deserialize resource information 
properly while taking into account that the project names may be 
different.

> - there is no description how to set up the collaboration. i
> just found some screenshots showing that the connection-url starts with
> ecftcp://...

There is no question in anyone's mind that documentation is lacking in 
ECF. If you are interested in contributing, please let us know. You could 
also edit the wiki pages directly assuming you have an Eclipse Bugzilla 
account.

> - the "search contact" option closes when entering a
> search-term and pressing the "enter"-key instead of searching for the
> search-term

I'm not familiar with this code but it seems there is a usability problem 
here. Please open a bug report.

> - there's no ecf user documentation. something like the
> buckminster-book would be great

See my earlier comment about our lackluster documentation.

Thank you for taking the time to for providing us with feedback about ECF.

Regards,
Remy