Hi Folks,
For everyone's information...I've moved the new
EndpointDiscoveryView to the EF git repo, in the
org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.ui plugin. Among other things, this
means that this new view (and the new associated perspective that
Wim created) will be present in ECF Mars release.
Below is new screenshot...including the PDE enhancement (notice
the Import service icon in lower right plugins view) recently
applied via bug
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=270684.
I would appreciate any testing/bug report, any desired new
features, and/or improvement in graphics (e.g. add transparent
background to the perspective icon?)
Scott
On 4/7/2015 10:13 AM, Scott Lewis wrote:
On 4/7/2015 4:40 AM, Wim Jongman
wrote:
Cool Scott, great work. I was working on this
icon as the endpoint icon.
Hi Wim. Although I like this icon, and think that we should
keep/add it so that we can use it in the future, I would like to
stick with the existing Endpoint icon for Mars for the following
reasons:
1) To my eye, what I've got for Endpoint visually stands out
better than the above, and for first release I would like to have
something that stands out relative to the other parts of Eclipse
tooling.
2) AFAIK, we are introducing the concept of an 'Endpoint' (in the
Remote Service/RSA context), and I would like to establish that
visually and conceptually. I think that the 'E' in the existing
icon helps do that (gives a textual as well as visual reminder of
what it's representing).
I would, however, like to add this icon to our set, and then we
could use it for other RSA concepts when we need it. Would that
be OK with you?
Also...if there are people that are more fascile than I am
(probably all of you) with Gimp/image editor, and want to
improve/do more anti-aliasing/improve the icons that are there I
would welcome that. After spending time with Gimp over the
weekend, I just don't have the eye and Gimp editing skills to do
that effectively for icons.
Now...about the build...although I appreciate your work on the
build today, I think it might be easier for releng and deployment
if I were to simply move/contribute all of what's currently in the
project at [1] into the already-existing EF bundle:
org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservices.ui. Then we wouldn't need a new
project/build/repo, it would simply be there in subsequent
releases (Mars). Also, then we could have this new view in the
new Remote Services perspective by default, and know that it was
there without further installation by users...other than
installing what we have now. How would that be?
OTOH, it might be useful to create a new feature to contain *just*
the Remote Service tooling (and dependencies), so that consumers
could install (into Eclipse) *just* the Remote Services tooling
parts of ECF. I'm currently torn somewhat about that, however,
because the way it is now maybe just fine...i.e. if people install
ECF sdk into Eclipse (not a huge install at all relative to most
other projects), then they will get this RS
perspective/views/tooling along with the Communications
perspective and other stuff. Actually, now that I think about it
I think we would have to do a fair amount of feature refactoring
to do this (allow only the install of RS tooling), so I think that
must/should wait for another release.
To summarize: my proposal is that I move everything from the
github project over to org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservices.ui, and then
we won't need another releng/build/project, etc, and we can use
the existing feature structure for Mars. I apologize for not
stating this clearly prior to your work on the releng over the
last day.
Scott
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