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Re: [epp-dev] Promote Quick Access Ctrl+3 via the EPP?
While "Tip of the Day" and/or "On Open Perspective" tips are indeed gaps that need to be filled, that should not preempt Lars' suggestion. As you've both said, a lot of users simply ignore the Welcome page, so promoting Quick Access there won't intrude on them; but adding it there is an easy (if small) win for raising awareness.
We all know that a tips framework, like everything else in Eclipse at the platform level, takes a lot of time and energy to make happen; Lars' idea is easy and has no downside that I can see.

Eric
April 7, 2016 6:52 AM

CDT has been struggling for a long time to advertise new features, to get users aware of them. We've even had to resort to adding extra menu items just to give hints that a feature exists.

A "tip of the day" framework that projects could hook into would be beneficial. It could even be a "smart tip" where opening a view could provide a relevant tip, or such other events. With a throttle of some sort, to not annoy the user.

BR,
Marc

From: Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Apr 7, 2016 06:02
To: epp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [epp-dev] Promote Quick Access Ctrl+3 via the EPP?

Hi,

The issue with the welcome page is the many people only looks at it once and close it. More experienced people close it even before looking at it, by habit, even if this page would help them.
We already had similar discussions on the ide-dev mailing-list last year or so; about a way to teach users good tips&tricks. A proposal was a "tip of the day", like many applications do. I believe this would work better than the welcome page for such thing. Such a "knowledge and recommendation framework for the IDE" would probably make sense in EPP or Platform/UA.
What we need is Clippy ;)

Cheers,
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April 6, 2016 2:12 PM
Hi,

Brian recently published info on this list, how to display important
information on your EPP welcome page. See
https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/epp-dev/msg03977.html

I regular work with or do training sessions with groups of Eclipse IDE
users. I typically ask new clients, if they are aware of the "Quick
Access" shortcut and functionality. Unfortunately the majority of them
are not aware of "Quick Access". I have also met several former
Eclipse users, which told me that they prefer IntelliJ over Eclipse
because of that feature. They thought this is not available in
Eclipse. IntelliJ puts this functionality under Main Menu | Search |
Find Action (Ctrl+Shift+A) in IntelliJ

I plan to add our Quick Access also to the Search menu to help Eclipse
users to discover it via
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=491181 but maybe you
could promote this shortcut / functionality on your welcome page. IMHO
this functionality is one of our gems in the IDE and deserves
promotion.

Best regards, Lars


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