hi,
I'm reading the article "Eclipse User Interface
Guidelines" on the web
page:http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-UI-Guidelines/Index.html.
And I have found that some behaviors of Eclipse
do not correspond with the guidelines mentioned in the article.
For example,
Guideline
2.2 The action tooltip should describe the
result of the action, not the current state of the
action.
And a paragraph above this guideline
says:
The tool tips for an action should describe
the behavior which occurs if the action is invoked. For instance, in the
following snapshot the behavior of the Field button is shown. If the
action is unpressed, pressing the action will hide the fields. If the
action is pressed, unpressing the action will show the fields. This
behavior is shown using two tool tips.
But actually it does not behave the same as
what described above. The tip aways shows the same words "Hide Fields",
whether the button is pressed or not.
And there are some other inconsistencies between
the article and Eclipse.
Maybe my question is insignificant. But when I am
devoloping a plug-in for Eclipse, should I conform to the guidelines or
just follow the actual behaviors of Eclipse?
And I wonder whether the guidelines are out
ouf date or the new version of Eclipse dose not conform to the
guidelines.
( I use Eclipse 2.1.0 in Windows2000
pro.)
regards,
bigbrain_cn
