Re: [platform-ui-dev] 2.1 M4 Plan posted

[Randy Hudson <hudsonr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This sounds cool.  Since it will
only show editors in the current window, does that mean the Editor tabs
won't be displayed anymore?
It will be nice to re-claim that space.

"Nick Edgar" <Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-ui-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 11/27/2002 09:05 AM Please respond to platform-ui-dev

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Well, actually, you're right -- we don't like the
editors dialog too much. 
 We feel it is too modal, too hidden, and too difficult to get at for 
mouse users.
However, it has been hard to replace, since it does provide functionality
not available elsewhere.

It would be interesting to know which features of the current editors 
dialog you find most useful.  Do you use it just for switching, or
do you 
make use of some of the other features.  Is being able to see the
full 
path important?

We're hoping that the editors drop-down will provide equivalent 
functionality.  For example, the drop-down will support multi-selection.
Its context menu will include Save, Close, Select Clean Editors, and 
Invert Selection, will allow you to sort by name or by most recently used,
and allow you to toggle whether the full path is shown in the drop-down.
The same accelerator used for the editors dialog will activate the 
drop-down (Ctrl+Shift+W), although I'd like to change this to Ctrl+E. This
is currently used for delete line in text editors though.

We're still facing a couple of issues with the drop-down though.  Unlike
the editors dialog, it will not be able to show editors across all 
windows.  And we're debating how it should work when you have two
editor 
workbooks.  Each workbook will have the drop-down (in the same way
that 
each workbook has tabs).  Should it show only the editors for the
single 
workbook, or for all editors in the window?

Nick






Marco Qualizza <mqualizza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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So, once again, we're going to lose the editors dialog.  *grin* You
guys
really don't like that thing, do you?  I mean, this is the second
time 
that
you've killed it off.  What's going to replace the functionality offered
by
the dialog?

> The plan for 2.1 Milestone 4 (Dec. 13) has been posted to the Platform
UI 
> team page:
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-ui-home/main.html


> 2.1 Development Effort - Milestone 4 (December 13, 2002)
> Performance improvement, with a focus on startup time, space usage,
and 
> scalability. 
> See PRs tagged with performance keyword and milestone 2.1 M4. 
> Bug fixing - address P1 and P2 PRs 
> Improvements to editor management (dealing with many open editors)
> add drop-down to the right of the tabs, showing all open editors 
> drop-down replaces editors dialog 
> drop-down has key binding (Ctrl+Shift+W) 
> preference for amount of tab compression (none, low, medium, high)
> preference for tabs in single row vs. multiple 
> preference for number of tabs visible (shows most recently used N)
> editors view, having same look and feel as the drop-down except in
a 
view 
> Refinement of UI for customizable keybindings 
> UI changes for Flexible Project Structure (see the Core docs) 
> Improvements to ordering and order stability in action sets (bugs
16282 
and 18357) 
> Preference to bring Tasks view to front when new problems found (bug
2066) 
> Experimental work items (may not surface in the milestone build):
> Table of contents in wizards 
> Investigate lazy update of views (bug 27084) 
> Dropped items: 
> Floating views (from M3). This investigation is paired with the work
on 
> cheat sheets, which has been defered until after 2.1. 


> Nick

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