Hi Brian,
If you’re interested you could consider scheduling a UI review
session with the UI Best Practices Group by sending mail to the list.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/User_Interface_Best_Practices_Working_Group
Mik
P.S. I noticed the “:” naming convention in your page title. Note
that if you use the “/” naming convention you’ll get mediawiki to show a convenient
bread-crumb bar below the page title, e.g. http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/UI_Design.
I only learned that trick late last year from posts on this list.
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Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] Fw: DTP Usability Discussion -
Feedback Requested
Hi all...
My name is Brian Fitzpatrick (aka "Fitz") and I'm the Team Lead for
the Connectivity sub-project of the Data Tools Project (DTP). (Whew! That's a
mouthful.)
We have begun an effort to work with the community on improving the usability
of DTP Connectivity UI components and tools for the Ganymede release for both
users and adopters and would like to get feedback from the community at large.
Based on some of the BZ entries and comments received on the DTP newsgroup and
mailing lists, we put together a high level plan that describes some of the
issues we're trying to solve.
You can read that here:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Connectivity:Usability:HighLevelPlan
We've now added a new document to the mix that covers some of the design ideas
we're looking at implementing for Ganymede in DTP.
You can read this new document here:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Connectivity:Usability:High_Level_Design
Please take a look at these two documents and feel free to ask questions and
provide feedback on the ideas therein. We're looking to improve the UI for all
users of DTP and would like to make it as useful as possible. We understand
that the work we do for Ganymede is a step in that direction and not
necessarily everything will make it into the release. But this will get us
started along the right road for Ganymede and going forward.
Our plan is to open up the floor for discussions until February 6. At that
point, I'll take a snapshot of where the discussion is and attempt to come up
with a working prototype to demo at EclipseCon 2008. Please don't feel that
we're shutting down the feedback loop at that point -- we just have to draw a
line in the sand so that we can come up with something more than screen shots
for the conference. I expect the conversation will continue long after Ganymede
is done. The usability of a tool is never set in stone.
So please take a look at the documents above. We're going to try and capture
comments in the comments page (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Connectivity:Usability:High_Level_Design_Comments)
so feel free to write directly on that Wiki page or send comments via the
dtp-dev or dtp-pmc mailing lists or the dtp dev newsgroup.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks for your time!
--Fitz
Brian Fitzpatrick
Senior Software Engineer
DTP Connectivity Team Lead
Sybase, Inc.