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RE: [platform-ui-dev] Window menu
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> Your preference is Configure > Preferences.
It could Customize > Preferences (Perspective > Customize can be Customize
> Perspective, right?) or any other explicit words.
Any words which would indicate to user on top menu that customization center
in here.
>You mention it would be "extensible". Can you elaborate on how you see it
being extended.
I guess the correct word would be "extendable" :)
I am thinking global configurability. Not active editors, but active
perspectives should be adding/removing entries from it.
If users switch to, let say, Java Perspective they will see Configure >
Java.
When users select the menu they see Preferences dialog as we know it today,
only with Java topic (node) selected and expended.
A plugin should start(if not started already) only when users actually
select a Configure > ... menu from the plugin.
Configure > ... menu should only be created if plugin developers would wish
to have the menu there,
not because of the existence of corresponding Preferences page. The only
permanent menu here is Configure > Preferences.
All of it should be plugin.xml settings.
>2) When you say start the preferences with a favorite page selected is it
sufficient to open to the previous page?
No. Plugin should be started. One of the plugin perspectives will be already
loaded, so more likely plugin will be started soon anyway.
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg_Adams@xxxxxxx [mailto:Greg_Adams@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 11:11 AM
To: platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [platform-ui-dev] Window menu
1) Your preference (no pun) is Configure > Preferences.
What additional items would you put on this menu - we should avoid a menu
with one item.
You mention it would be "extensible". Can you elaborate on how you see it
being extended.
Are you think of global configurability or are you thinking of active
editors adding/remove entries from it.
Can you provide some concrete examples of what you would add to it.
2) When you say start the preferences with a favorite page selected is it
sufficient to open to the previous page?
If yes, then when the user exits/restarts the workbench would we ignore the
last page thus avoiding prematurely starting a plugin simply to show its
preference page?
Thx.
/Greg
