Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] [ide-dev] concrete action item - m

[Stefan Xenos <sxenos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

IMO, the first step to having consistent menus is having a consistent and well-documented set of criteria for inclusion in each menu. Right now, no such set of criteria has been published.

I tried to start the process of documenting the function of menu on the main menubar here:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=94196

...perhaps if we could ratify this (or something like it) as an official set of UI guidelines, it would then be possible to police plugins for conformance to those guidelines.

  - Stefan

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:37 AM Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I doubt you¹d find someone who disagrees. Question, what can we do if the
third party isn¹t responsive? Is there a mechanism we can put in place
that we can use to filter stray menu contributions?

On 2016-09-14, 11:32 AM, "ide-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Pascal
Rapicault" <ide-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>STOP SHITTING IN MY CONTEXT MENU!!!!
>
>Sure Eclipse is all about integration but we often found ourselves with
>ridiculous menu entries because one is not carefully selecting where its
>menu entries should be placed.
>
>In the attached screenshot, I'm adding a new context menu to the EGerrit
>dashboard to find my menu polluted with not 1, not 2 but *3* random
>entries from Team and PDE projects. Come on guys, you can do better.
>
>And you know what, here I just have the Eclipse SDK, EGerrit and Egit
>installed. Imagine a user who has everythign installed.
>
>I think this sort of things make us look bad, could we agree to fix this?
>
>Pascal
>
>

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