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Re: [e4-dev] Important e4 call reminder
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Hi,
Because I'm unsure whether I can attend the call tomorrow I'm sending
out this via mail.
I split the stuff into 2 parts:
* Things I commit to work on
* Things I see problem areas and I would invest time if I'd have the
money/time
This is not meant as any cristism on the how it is implemented currently
but rather a reflection of the current code base.
Things I commit my personal time to work to:
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- Reevaluated/rethink the renderer implementation
The idea of the renderer has been part of my initial e4 prototype but
I'd like to revisit its current implementation and focus on:
- Replaceability: We currently really focus on to usage of SashForm
and C/ETabFolder and I have the feeling that this is driving our
implementions
- Extensibility: We want Renderers to replace the current presentation
API but as it stands now I don't think we could force someone to
write renderes their own. We need to revisit the whole stuff and see
where we can give people easy access to customize it.
Things I would work on if I would have time/money:
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- CSS via XText: I'm a bit unhappy with how we are parsing and dealing
with CSS today. Beside I don't want to call it CSS I simply see it as
a DSL and well we already have EMF why not use XText to define the
Declarative Styling Syntax we'd like to use so the whole styling is
also backed up by an Live EMF model.
Things we'd get for free are:
- Editor with Content-Assistent, Syntax checking, ...
- a live EMF model people can interface programmtically with
- possible integration with TMF
=> As an exercise Bernd Kolb and me sat down at EclipseCon09 for an
hour and started defining such a thing
- JFace: I'd like to reimplementation JFace-Viewers for e4 following the
following principles:
- Widget Toolkit neutral
=> UFaceKit already holds such viewers and it's working out great
- Java 5
=> Use Java 5 features like Generics
- Direct Databinding integration
- TMF: As you all already know I'm a big believer in Modeled UI (please
don't mix this up with the Modeled Workbench) and how it would nicely
integrate into e.g. CSS and stuff like this
- Modeled Workbench Tooling: We have this nice out of the box
EMF-XMI-Editor but we need to give e4 developers a better tooling to
write their e4-RCP-Applications. A "low hanging" fruit is to write a
visual editor for the Workbench Model using EMF+GEF (whether it is GMF
or not is not important)
- Forward Compat Layer for RCP: Strange thing but it would allow
workbench parts written for e4 (using IEclipseContext) to run to get
integrated in 3.x. I have not thought a lot about this but at least a
path to explore a bit
Tom
John Arthorne schrieb:
>
> Minutes from yesterday's e4 call are available here:
>
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/Meeting_Minutes/Status_20090813
>
> The goal of this call was to set the direction for the year ahead, but
> this wasn't possible due to poor attendance. We will try again in two
> weeks on August 27th. Come to this meeting *prepared* to talk about
> concrete items you plan to work on in your e4 area over the year ahead.
> We may decide to close off components/work areas that are not
> represented in this planning call. If you absolutely can't make it,
> please send information to this list about your e4 plan for the next year.
>
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