Re: [eclipse.org-feep-stakeholders] FEEP 2017: Work Items list

[Mikaël Barbero <mikael@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Le 9 déc. 2016 à 14:48, Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
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>> On 5 Dec 2016, at 05:58, Mikaël Barbero <mikael@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks for your comment. I agree that this won't add much to the IDE (at least short term). While there is no priority having multiple rows of tabs in the IDE, IMO vertical tabs could be highly appreciated (esp. related to screen estate — developers tend to have more horizontal screen space avail., so saving vertical space for contents instead of tabbars feels like a good idea). 
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> Do you have a wireframe where this is needed and would bring the value add? I can't currently think of anything in the platform where vertical tabs would help fix/address a usability issue.

I'm thinking abou the left and right columns of views (the ones which almost always contains "project explorer" and "outline" views). Currently, I've 4 views on the left: project explorer, type hierarcy, git repos and junit. Having vertical tabs would save some vertical screen estate (and would allow me to see the title of the 4 of them instead of ellipsis :)).

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>> The goal of FEEP is to make "improvements to the Eclipse IDE/Platform". As such, this platform improvement fits in there: it's addressing a high priority thing for people who have voted on the bugzilla. It's an acknowledgment that they have been heard.
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> Please, please please be very careful with the votes. Some of them are years old and people who personally voted for it may have moved on for longer things. I do question the value of it without deeper analysis and considering other input.

I agree about being careful. My take is that with such a high number of votes, even old ones, this feature must be useful to a bunch of people, even today. Unfortunately, we don't know the age of the votes, so we can't really analyze them more than that.

Cheers,
Mikael