Re: [eclipse-pmc] Solstice Intro/Welcome theme

["Daniel Megert" <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brian,

the Welcome Screen redesign is on my
list for this week. And after that I'll promptly address the CQ.

Dani



From:      
 Brian de Alwis <briandealwis@xxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 epp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx,
eclipse-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:      
 09.02.2016 17:05
Subject:    
   [eclipse-pmc]
Solstice Intro/Welcome theme
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   eclipse-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hi everybody.

I’m a committer on the Platform and was asked to work
on the reimagined Welcome/Intro described in bug
466370.  The work is in two parts:

1.        It
introduces a new Solstice-based theme for the Welcome/Intro pages, similar
to what’s used in the eclipse.orgpages.
2.        It
also re-imagines the ‘home’ start page to provide a set of useful starting
actions for new (and possibly grizzled) developers; I’ve called these
“quicklinks”.  

I’ve included a small snapshot it below.

Three things to notice:

• We’ve moved the page references (Overview, Tutorials, Samples, What’s New) to the right side
• We’ve added a set of ‘quicklinks’ for commonly-used commands (left side)
• We’ve brought in the always-show component (lower right), which defaults to “always show on restart”

The work is currently pending on CQ
10824 against platform.ui (gerrit)
and we’ll need a similar CQ for use of the icons for EPP.  This needs
PMC sign-off before it can proceed further.

This work is opt-in.  The goal is for the EPP packages
to use it, once approved.

I’ve put up a changeset
on Gerrit to implement the change above for
the Java package as an example.  What you need to do:

• Include the org.eclipse.intro.theme.solstice feature: it includes two bundles, org.eclipse.ui.intro.solstice and org.eclipse.ui.intro.quicklinks, that implement the theme and the quicklinks component, respectively.
  • Until the platform.uachange is committed, the easiest way to play is to Download > Archive from the Gerrit changeset on platform.uaand import the projects
• Change your plugin_customization.ini to point org.eclipse.ui.intro/INTRO_THEME = org.eclipse.ui.intro.universal.solstice
• Configure your desired quicklinks using the org.eclipse.ui.intro.quicklinks extension point.  These leverage the existing Eclipse Core Commands (e.g., the org.eclipse.ui.newWizard command).

There’s potentially more that can be done.  The
org.eclipse.ui.intro.solstice.examplesbundle shows how you could embed custom RSS feeds into the root page.

Brian.[attachment "JEE Welcome.PNG" deleted
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