Last revised $Date: 2008/09/04 13:44:29 $

This plan is under continuous refinement. Please send comments about this plan to the platform-text-dev@eclipse.org developer mailing list.

Note: The JDT Text plan is now hosted on the Combined JDT Text and JDT UI Plan.

Overall Goals

This section lists the goals for Eclipse 3.5 for the Platform Text component as listed on the Eclipse Project 3.5 Draft Plan.

[1] Performance. Monitor overall performance and memory consumption which includes the addition of new performance tests for new features.

[2] Reliability. Provide APIs for clients where needed and fix critical bugs.

[3] Keep Eclipse vibrant and attractive. Deliver new productivity features like improved quick diff hovers and save actions for textual editors.

Work Items

This section lists the possible work items for Eclipse 3.5 for the Platform Text component with the [corresponding theme]. Some of those items have a higher priority than others.

• Find/Replace [2]

  • improve Find/Replace dialog: merge into editor area, ... [from external contributor] (bug 99294)

• Hovering [3]

  • quick diff usability improvements in hover (Next/Prev support etc.) 7d
  • improve ruler hover accessibility (bug 78244 and bug 243304) 3d
  • [hovering] Add 'Show in Properties File' action to NLS key hover (bug 220002) 1d

• Ruler improvements [2]

  • improve overview ruler arming and size of active area
  • investigate improving the usability of icons in the vertical ruler [experimental]
    • fix most common layering problem (breakpoints) by changing their layer
    • alpha blending so that underlying icons can be seen
    • down-size images so that we can show 4 instead of one
    • allow to increase ruler width
    • allow users to configure the annotation presentation layer for each annotation
    • finish/cleanup the roll-over annotation work that was kicked off during 3.0
    • add support to contribute actions and context menus to ruler columns (depends on Platform UI bug 134526)

• Spell Checking [2]

  • investigate and reduce memory consumption

• Performance [1]

  • investigate to reduce garbage when typing
  • revisit the text viewer's support for redraw, compound updates, and selection preservation
    • check all setRedraw(on/off) users whether they really need that expensive operation (e.g. undo)
  • constantly watch performance test results and act when red
  • continue to provide new tests

• Miscellaneous

  • change folding paradigm: no longer eat first key stroke [experimental] (bug 67500, bug 66264) 2d
  • generalize save actions i.e. push down from JDT Text (bug 195063) 1m
  • API/extension points to contribute new context types (to allow clients to add something like SWT templates) (bug 236878) 1d
  • provide API for BrowserInformationControl (bug 218482) and HTML2TextReader (bug 241896) 3d
  • generalize breadcrumb (needs to be discussed with Platform UI whether/how we want to do it)
  • provide LTK layer for text editing support (bug 125825, bug 149817, ...)
  • up/down navigation loses context when reconciler kicks in (bug 79992)
  • Restore editor selection on restart should restore visible view port as well (bug 169838)
  • Problems with undo grouping in linked mode (bug 77575)

• General Items [2]

  • 3.4.x maintenance work 1w
  • look at bugs with patches and review those

Cross Team Issues

This section contains cross team issues that have to be clarified. The concrete outcome affects the plan items listed above.

• Platform UI
  • bug 134526 needs to get fixed in order to add support to contribute actions and context menus to ruler columns

General Items [2]

• [3.5 M3] 3.4.1 maintenance work 1w
• 3.5 planning 1d

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing
• watch performance tests
• increase correctness test coverage

Testing

• test plan for the 3.5 M1 test pass.

General Items [2]

• 3.4.1 maintenance work 1w

Hovering [3]

• quick diff usability improvements in hover (Next/Prev support etc.) 7d
• improve ruler hover accessibility (bug 78244 and bug 243304) 3d

Miscellaneous [3]

• change folding paradigm: no longer eat first key stroke [experimental] (bug 67500, bug 66264) 2d
• resolve cross team issues (get target milestones for required work) 1d

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing
• watch performance tests
• increase correctness test coverage

Testing

• test plan for the 3.5 M2 test pass.

API

• API/extension points to contribute new context types (to allow clients to add something like SWT templates) (bug 236878) 1d

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing
• watch performance tests
• increase correctness test coverage

Testing

• test plan for the 3.5 M3 test pass.

API

• provide API for BrowserInformationControl (bug 218482) and HTML2TextReader (bug 241896) 3d

Miscellaneous

• generalize save actions i.e. push down from JDT Text (bug 195063) 1m

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing
• watch performance tests
• increase correctness test coverage

Testing

• test plan for the 3.5 M4 test pass.

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing
• watch performance tests
• increase correctness test coverage

Testing

• test plan for the 3.5 M5 test pass.

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing
• watch performance tests
• increase correctness test coverage

Testing

• test plan for the 3.5 M6 test pass.

Performance 0.5m

Polish 0.5m

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing
• watch performance tests
• increase correctness test coverage

Testing

• test plan for the 3.5 M7 test pass.

• new bug reports
• accepted Platform Text bug reports
• find a bug report