Re: how SHOULD it look

From: Pascal Robert (prober..acti.ca)
Date: Wed Jun 18 2008 - 13:19:47 EDT

  • Next message: Mike Schrag: "Re: how SHOULD it look"

    Le 08-06-18 à 12:20, Chuck Hill a écrit :

    >
    > On Jun 18, 2008, at 7:23 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
    >
    >>>> I've been experimenting some with Eclipse's emulated tabs on OS
    >>>> X ... This is the tabs with an implementation of the Safari tab
    >>>> style:
    >>>
    >>> Not nice :(
    >>>
    >>> a) the tabs in safari are for documents, not "info panels" which
    >>> is what the tabs in the lower part are.
    >>> b) the icons are important info and the text is very hard to read
    >> Well, I agree, or I'd commit it :) Well, I agree with "a". I'm
    >> still not convinced the icons are important at all in these views ...
    >
    > I _use_ the icons. And some of them are functional too. The JUnit
    > one animates during test runs to show progress and to indicate if
    > any tests fail. If your tests result in logging, the console window
    > comes to the front, so this animation actually provides useful and
    > important information. Eclipse would be less functional without
    > it. And we don't want a less functional but more OS X in appearance
    > Eclipse. Do we?
    >
    > My two cents.

    I'm with Chuck on this. And I think that having a custom IDE (Eclipse
    RCP app) with a custom startup page and with "cleaner" menus would be
    much more useful, especially for newcomers.



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