Re: [ide-dev] Thoughts about a generic "Open Type" dialog

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As long as someone plans to drive it - huge +1 from me, otherwise we have huge list of ideas how to improve the experience but just so many hours in the day. I find myself using "Open resource" way more often for exactly the same reason - to be able to open every type (assuming I have an idea for the file name) instead of being surprised by "Open type" showing me smth I definitely don't look cause of the active editor.

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Schaefer" <cdtdoug@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Discussions about the IDE" <ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, 16 April, 2016 3:57:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [ide-dev] Thoughts about a generic "Open Type" dialog
> 
> +1
> 
> I think this is one feature that keeps us from having one "Coding"
> perspective. When doing IoT things I found myself writing C/C++ code and
> Java and JavaScript, but I do it all from one perspective which in my case
> is the C++ perspective, but I hate that Open Type differs depending on what
> the current selection is and the current perspective. It would be great to
> have it all in one dialog and we can provide a unified perspective for
> working with code.
> 
> Great idea Gunnar. I'll definitely help from the CDT side.
> 
> Doug.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Gunnar Wagenknecht < gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was investigating providing a dialog similar to "Open Type" except that it
> will show my custom artifact types. While providing my own dialog with my
> own artifacts is easy, I'm really struggling with the key binding.
> 
> Here is the story:
> - ⇧⌘T taken by JDT
> - ⇧⌘R taken
> - ⇧⌘A taken by PDE
> - ⇧⌘Q/W/E taken
> - ⇧⌘Y/Z/X/C taken
> 
> There is a really high competition for those because it's doable with a
> single hand. :)
> 
> Looking at a few other plug-ins we discovered that:
> - ⇧⌘T hijacked by JSDT
> - ⇧⌘T hijacked by CDT
> 
> Thinking about usability and consistency, I do prefer the ⇧⌘ sequence, which
> seems to be pattern for "open stuff".
> 
> Thus, by having an extensible "Open Things" dialog I was thinking that we
> could free up ⇧⌘A and make ⇧⌘T a consistent experience for the Eclipse tool
> stack.
> 
> The requirements I would set for this dialog:
> - allow plug-ins to contribute content
> - keep the UI as simple as possible
> - allow filtering of things
> - be smart about the context where the dialog is opened
> 
> The latter one would be a key feature for me, i.e. it would rank JDT results
> higher when in a JDT perspective/view/editor.
> 
> The actions items I see:
> - provide dialog in Platform IDE
> - modify JDT to switch that dialog
> - modify PDT to switch to that dialog (freeing up ⇧⌘A)
> 
> However, before going down that path and investing further time, I wanted to
> reach out to this group for gathering feedback. Clearly, that won't fly
> without by-in from the teams mentioned above (which is a different
> discussion). Let's focus on the technical parts for now.
> 
> -Gunnar
> 
> 
> --
> Gunnar Wagenknecht
> gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx , http://guw.io/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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