[platform-ui-dev] UI Guidelines v2.1 Feedback

[David.Brandow@xxxxxxxxxx]

Given the increasing use of hyperlinks
in Eclipse, I was wondering if it would be appropriate to establish some
guidelines as to their use.  There seems to be two general uses, as
traditional hyperlinks to navigate to a different location (for example,
the File Assocations, Content Types and Appearance links on the General->Editors
preference page) and to open dialogs/wizards (for example, the Configure
Project Specific Settings... link on the Java->Compiler preference page).
 My specific area of confusion lies in the latter use case, its not
clear to me under what circumstances I should be using a button and under
what circumstances I should be using a hyperlink.  If you could provide
a guideline to go by, that'd be greatly appreciated.


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Keep your stick on the ice,

David Brandow
Sybase Engineering