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[mylyn-dev] Re: Fishtail - Using task context to automate web searches
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Hi Nathan,
I've played a little with this tool but didn't noticed any relevance
between my task context and search results suggested by this view, so I
am not sold on the usefulness yet. :-)
Besides, there are several UI-related things.
First of all, it is completely unnecessary to have borders around
widgets that are put in the view. Compare it, for example, with standard
Eclipse view, i.e. Problems or History view and because screen real
estate is limited it would be useful to be able to disable the
description area and provide better markup in the tooltip for search
results.
Also, after looking at this view for some time I started to wonder why
does it have to be a separate view? There is already Help / Dynamic help
view, which seem a really good candidate for this sort of search
results. More over, there is also Mylyn's own Active Search view, that
might be another good candidate to plug in this tool into.
Another interesting aspect is that Mylyn does have core support for
tracking external resources, such as web pages with the task context.
Unfortunately in my understanding it been left out for commercial tools
to provide UI for that. So developer tools are lacking support of
managing or tracking such resources, but it would be really useful for
developers to have list of web resources or wiki pages along with the
sources relevant to the active task, i.e. show those resources right in
the Project Explorer view or on a special tab in the Task Editor.
regards,
Eugene
Nathan Hapke wrote:
Are you constantly searching the web for resources as you program?
(E.g.: Are you searching for information about how to integrate with
Eclipse?)
Gail Murphy and I have been working on a new tool, Fishtail, which
uses the context of a currently active Mylyn task to formulate web
searches about the code of interest. Searches are performed for a
variety of categories, such as articles, tutorials, and examples of
code use. The goal is to bring web resources into the development
environment as you work, so that information is readily available when
you need it.
It is available at: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/spl/projects/fishtail/
If you have any comments or feedback, please contact me via email at
nhapke@xxxxxxxxx.
Cheers,
Nathan
