On 4/7/2015 4:40 AM, Wim Jongman wrote:
Cool Scott, great work. I was working on this icon
as the endpoint icon.
Hi Wim. Although I like this icon, and think that we should
keep/add it so that we can use it in the future, I would like to
stick with the existing Endpoint icon for Mars for the following
reasons:
1) To my eye, what I've got for Endpoint visually stands out better
than the above, and for first release I would like to have something
that stands out relative to the other parts of Eclipse tooling.
2) AFAIK, we are introducing the concept of an 'Endpoint' (in the
Remote Service/RSA context), and I would like to establish that
visually and conceptually. I think that the 'E' in the existing
icon helps do that (gives a textual as well as visual reminder of
what it's representing).
I would, however, like to add this icon to our set, and then we
could use it for other RSA concepts when we need it. Would that be
OK with you?
Also...if there are people that are more fascile than I am (probably
all of you) with Gimp/image editor, and want to improve/do more
anti-aliasing/improve the icons that are there I would welcome
that. After spending time with Gimp over the weekend, I just don't
have the eye and Gimp editing skills to do that effectively for
icons.
Now...about the build...although I appreciate your work on the build
today, I think it might be easier for releng and deployment if I
were to simply move/contribute all of what's currently in the
project at [1] into the already-existing EF bundle:
org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservices.ui. Then we wouldn't need a new
project/build/repo, it would simply be there in subsequent releases
(Mars). Also, then we could have this new view in the new Remote
Services perspective by default, and know that it was there without
further installation by users...other than installing what we have
now. How would that be?
OTOH, it might be useful to create a new feature to contain *just*
the Remote Service tooling (and dependencies), so that consumers
could install (into Eclipse) *just* the Remote Services tooling
parts of ECF. I'm currently torn somewhat about that, however,
because the way it is now maybe just fine...i.e. if people install
ECF sdk into Eclipse (not a huge install at all relative to most
other projects), then they will get this RS
perspective/views/tooling along with the Communications perspective
and other stuff. Actually, now that I think about it I think we
would have to do a fair amount of feature refactoring to do this
(allow only the install of RS tooling), so I think that must/should
wait for another release.
To summarize: my proposal is that I move everything from the github
project over to org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservices.ui, and then we won't
need another releng/build/project, etc, and we can use the existing
feature structure for Mars. I apologize for not stating this
clearly prior to your work on the releng over the last day.
Scott
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