[e4-dev] thoughts on I20090708-1930

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A stream of consciousness look at starting up the latest e4 i-build...

• initial layout looks odd; editor area is about 2" wide
• why is this called the Java perspective? with the "E4 Model" view on the right, it clearly isn't; maybe label it "e4"?
• having the "E4 Model" view there (and the associated stack underneath it) is cool, but it should have a different color (or something) to distinguish it's "metaness" from the rest of the views; would also be good if you could close it
• still seeing 2 Run menus and 2 Design menus; 2nd Run menu has (just) 2 "Breakpoint Types" items
• on the mac, it doesn't look like I'm getting any CSS styling
• tried dragging Outline view somewhere more useful; didn't work, so I tried using the "E4 Model' view to do it:
  • first attempt: into the left hand stack, but dropped in the wrong place and ended up with the Outline view as its own perspective (that's both cool and weird)
  • second attempt: into the "stickyRight" stack; seemed to work, but then I couldn't figure out how to make it visible
• opened the "CVS Repository Exploring" perspective
  • checked out the e4 projects, said run in background, then realized I could no longer see progress
  • tried "show view" -> other -> Progress, but nothing appeared to happen
  • clicked back on Java perspective and saw Progress view visible and updating
• exited and restarted; noticed that I had lost all of the perspective and layout changes

McQ.