Re: maclike vs eclipselike

From: Andrew R. Kinnie (akinni..ac.com)
Date: Fri Oct 02 2009 - 16:14:44 EDT

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    I like the idea, myself. Though I pretty much hate all things
    Eclipse, except for the bit about it being the only sensible way to
    develop in WO. The more yeoman-like work you feel like doing to make
    it more mac-like the better, as far as I'm concerned.

    My $.02

    Andrew

    On Oct 2, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:

    > It would work like inspectors on normal Mac apps -- it would just be
    > "Inspector Window" ... you wouldn't close and reopen for each one,
    > it would change with selection (like old EOModeler).
    >
    > Technically you can tear off the current view, but the layout is
    > undesirable for an inspector panel. This kind of goes back to the
    > main question of whether we're an Eclipse app or a Mac app. If
    > we're a Mac app, I think there's no question that this should be a
    > separator inspector window -- You really don't see embedded
    > inspector views very often on the Mac.
    >
    > I'm undecided on it at the moment. Just something I'm tossing around.
    >
    > ms
    >
    > On Oct 2, 2009, at 3:34 PM, David Avendasora wrote:
    >
    >> I often step through attributes and relationships to check/set
    >> things, I don't want to have to open the inspector and then close
    >> it again when I'm done only to reopen it on the next attribute.
    >>
    >> Maybe making it so it is it's own pane like the console might be
    >> better so those that want it separate and not taking up space in
    >> the main window could move it or close it.
    >>
    >> Dave
    >>
    >> On Oct 2, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
    >>
    >>> http://skitch.com/mikeschrag/nbwcr/eclipse
    >>>
    >>> On Oct 2, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> I've been _contemplating_ pulling the properties panel out of
    >>>> Entity Modeler and moving to an Inspector-style approach ... This
    >>>> is VERY un-eclipse, though. How do people feel about this?
    >>>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>
    >
    >



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