Fw: [eclipse-dev] Please help me stop the context menu abuse

[Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This addresses the immediate solution
of top level context menu clutter.  Just trying to "stop the
abuse" <g>, that is all.

Why such a small change?  For one
because its RC1.

For another, while there have been much
more clever ideas discussed over the years, the more elaborate they get
the harder it gets to get agreement and put them into action.  I believe
we still have a fundamental hole in our story around project "type",
the workflow to add/remove, and the way its persented to the user.  Because
of this, looking forward, I believe e4 is the right place to solve it.

Yours in UIs,
Kevin

PS.  While the menu bar Project
menu was also discussed in this eclipse-dev thread as a possible home for
these operations, some had expressed concern that nobody looks in that
menu.  We too were concerned.  Similar for the Properties page.
 This proposal seems the smallest delta from what people are doing
now to what would address the immediate problem of clutter.  By going
with the smallest delta, we increase the chance that existing plugins would
adopt the change.


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McGuire/Ottawa/IBM on 05/12/2008 02:41 PM -----

"Paul Webster" <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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05/12/2008 01:37 PM

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Subject	Re: [eclipse-dev] Please help me stop the context menu abuse

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=231611
[Contributions] Provide a project configure context menu

One possibility is that we provide a Configure submenu in the context
menu.  It would be available when the selection was an open project.

Please comment on the bug.  This is simply providing a "convention"
to
help clear up the clutter in this particular case.

PW

-- 
Paul Webster
Hi floor. Make me a sammich! - GIR
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