| [ui-best-practices-working-group] UI Best Practices Working Group |
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Board Members, I would like to remind everyone that over a year ago we
formed a UI
Best Practices Working Group, and that each Strategic Developer was asked
to make a good faith effort to find someone to participate. That said, all
Eclipse working groups are open to all members. The group got off to a bit of a slow start, but there is now
some great momentum observable in the meeting minutes and in some of the
documents being produced. Here is just a sampling of some recent documents
contained on the group wiki that already look very helpful and useful: ·
Draft Eclipse 3.x UI Best
Practices (the Top Ten
section seems immediately useful, but the working page is
better reading.) ·
UI
Graphics Style Design (very cool) Comments and calls to action: 1.
Thanks to everyone participating in the working group.
Progress is clearly being made, and I hope that the goal of having a strong new
version of the guidelines can be attained in time to impact the Ganymede
release in a positive way. 2.
A reminder to all of the Board members to recognize the
efforts of your organization’s representatives
on the working group. They’re doing good and important work here. 3.
A further reminder to Board members (especially
Strategic Developers) that if your organization is not involved that their
participation would be welcomed. We have a chance to make concrete progress on
a community topic that has been highlighted as an issue for quite some time
now. (Namely, UI cohesion across multiple Eclipse projects.) Thanks. Mike
Milinkovich Executive
Director Eclipse
Foundation, Inc. Office:
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