Re: [ide-dev] Survey results

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Very good idea, but again we have the preferences profile problem.

Most of my plugins have deliberate, but unfortunately inadequately consistent, stronger warning settings, so changing the workspace preference makes no difference to me so I may choose to reject it because it has no effect rather than because I dislike it.

Unless of course, following the user acceptance of the suggested setting, we get a checkbox list of all the places where this change could be activated. Without preference profiles, this should be a list of non-read-only (GIT-wise) projects with those already using the setting greyed out. With preference profiles, many projects would be aggregated hierarchically under the preference profile to which the change could be applied.

    Regards

        Ed Willink

On 11/12/2013 09:20, Matthias Sohn wrote:

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Marcel Bruch <marcel.bruch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I’m not completely sure how bad this idea is but… what about a „Preference Recommender“? (bear with me).

I’m thinking of this as a „tip of the day“ style thing. When a user starts the IDE (and has enabled "tips of the day"), I’d recommend a preference to him he hasn’t used before along with a short description and/or a picture. If the user accepts that proposal, I’d change that preference and send an event to a server that collects these results (if the user allowed me to do so). With that we get a detailed feedback about which settings users accept or not - and we even may collect stats whether he reverted that change later or not etc. etc. 

If 1000 developers out of 1500 accept that proposal, I’d recommend it as the new default.

Just a proposal. We could start with a couple of compiler tips and see how it goes - iff Eclipse Fdn gives it’s permission to collect that data, and we agree on some acceptance threshold.

Marcel

+1 

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