Re: [ide-dev] 10 ideas to improve Eclipse IDE usability

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> with the amount of buttons this would add to the
UI by default I would 
> say No to it.
> 
> You do realise as soon as you move your mouse in the field the buttons
> show up.
> 
> btw. I didn't know this feature existed either - but now I do I like
it 
> but I wouldn't want my default hover to be ugly ;)

Thanks Max, for so well capturing the reason Eclipse's
usability is so hard to improve. 
The beginner's "ease of use" gets in the
way of the expert's "well known work-flow". :) 





From:      
 "Max Rydahl Andersen"
<manderse@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "Discussions about
the IDE" <ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, 
Date:      
 06/13/2014 07:48 AM
Subject:    
   Re: [ide-dev]
10 ideas to improve Eclipse IDE usability
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On 2 Jun 2014, at 14:28, Mickael Istria wrote:

> On 05/28/2014 11:18 PM, Daniel Megert wrote:
>> > Even just showing a link on the warning pop-up to the 
>> Project/Workspace preference page to customize warning would be
a 
>> very good thing.
>>
>> Maybe you're using CDT? If you use JDT this is there for quite
some 
>> time:
>>
>>
>> And the button on the left allows to configure how the problem
is 
>> shown in the editor.
> I didn't know that... That's pretty cool to understand that most good
> ideas we repeat now are already implemented somewhere in Eclipse.
>
> Now the question is more, how comes that such a tool isn't known from
> some (most?) of us? I'm pretty sure that the "F2 to focus"
is to 
> blame. I never hit F2, it's too far away from the space bar. And 
> moreover, I didn't expected something so cool to be hidden, so I never
> thought that focusing was providing so much new powers. The current
> "F2 to focus" message doesn't tease me enough to make me
actually hit 
> F2 and see what it's worth.
> That's a general criticism I'd make to Eclipse IDE (similarly to the
> some others UX things we already discussed there): some big powers
are 
> hidden, difficult to guess, difficult to access, forgotten. For this
> specific example, what would it cost to show the whole popup by 
> default, with an option "F2 for shorter version" ? A few
pixels lost 
> on screen when hovering? It's a very low-cost for highlighting those
> cool informations without additional effort.

with the amount of buttons this would add to the UI by default I would
say No to it.

You do realise as soon as you move your mouse in the field the buttons
show up.

btw. I didn't know this feature existed either - but now I do I like it
but I wouldn't want my default hover to be ugly ;)


/max
http://about.me/maxandersen
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