| Re: [platform-ui-dev] Suggestions for improvement. |
Calin Please log these issues via Bugzilla - this newsgroup is intended for news about the ongoing development of the UI component. If you could log these as seperate bugs that would be especially helpful as we are approaching the end of the 3.0 cycle and are focussing hard on bugs right now. Tod Creasey Eclipse Workbench Team Calin Tenitchi <calin@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-ui-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 04/20/2004 07:40 AM Please respond to platform-ui-dev To platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject [platform-ui-dev] Suggestions for improvement. Thanks for the great work everybody is doing! I have worked with Eclipse since 2M6 and it is, or will be, the best tool around. Below are some suggestions that could improve the usability. I could modify some of these existing views myself if I only get some pointers from the seasoned Eclipse developers. UI - general It would be nice if the title bar of some of the views could be hidden. That way I could build a perspective which would better reflect the way I see code. See figure 1. Notice that the title bars of Outline, Types etc have been hidden. There seems to have trickled in a small bug when using Gnome (Fedora Core 1) When switching to full screen mode the dialog boxes that appear are also in full screen mode. That wouldn't be to bad if they weren't hidden behind the main window :) Is this a bug in Gnome? The functionality is outstanding since I am finally able to use all available screen estate. This used to work until I upgrade gnome to 2.4 I think. The tabs for the stacked views are placed below the view but the "click distance" if often shorter if they are placed at the top. Packages view: The package name filter would be more powerful with a regexp. Often I am interested in working with a certain set of packages. The selection is easily expressed using "show only" type of query. It would be nice if it could display packages from more than one project. It would be nice to be able to filter out only the packages that contain source. The packages from 3'rd party jars are often of less importance than the code I am working on right now. Types - view There doesn't seem to be possible to create 2 instances of Types view with different settings. I would like to make a view that displays interfaces first, then classes. This could be also be solved with a new sorting option although several instances of the same view with slightly different filters and settings would be more flexible. Stacking As you can see from figure 1 I have stacked the outline and hierarchy view. It seems like the object in focus for the outline should also be focus for the hierarchy view. A switch to hierarchy will show a different view of the current object. It is maybe just me but I see the stacking functionality as a fast way to switch between different views of the same object/collection of objects. Keyboard navigation improvements "Right arrow" in project navigator the view could focus on the package explorer. "Right arrow" in Package view focus on Types would be nice. "Right arrow" in Types view focus on Outline view. "Left arrow" would go "backwards" Keep up the great work! Attached draft-1.png
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