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** This is for reconciling user changes with new model changes coming from contributed bundles
 
** This is for reconciling user changes with new model changes coming from contributed bundles
 
** User changes layout, shuts down, installs new bundles, and restarts. Now we need to reconcile the user's model changes with the contributions from the newly installed bundles
 
** User changes layout, shuts down, installs new bundles, and restarts. Now we need to reconcile the user's model changes with the contributions from the newly installed bundles

Latest revision as of 13:15, 3 December 2009

Attendees

  • Bogdan Gheorghe
  • Boris Bokowski
  • Dan Rubel
  • Eric Moffatt
  • John Arthorne
  • McQ
  • Oleg Besedin
  • Paul Webster
  • Remy Suen
  • Simon Kaegi
  • Susan McCourt
  • Tom Schindl
  • Yves Yang

Minutes

  • XWT status:
    • Working on integration of XWT with workbench
    • Using XWT to produce form-based UIs
    • Extending XWT designer tools to be able to author e4 workbench layouts
    • Also working on PMF project - generating UI from a business model
  • Update from Tom:
    • Presented on e4 in Vienna, and next in Hamburg
    • Lots of interest in the ideas and people are looking forward to a release
  • Style
  • Trying to balance creating a distinctive style while respecting platform themes
  • Want to allow clients to express styling that is consistent with platform themes (some function of platform themes)
  • See E4/CSS/Visual_Design for details
  • Animations also being investigated as a way to modernize the e4 L&F
  • Animation support in HTML 5.0 a potential starting point for investigation
  • Report from Dan on initial experience
    • Could the examples be integrated into welcome or on a web page integrated in the IDE?
    • Initial attempt to install and run examples from scratch is failing - some prerequisites probably missing
    • Could we have some tooling that provides problem markers when required services are missing
  • Improvements to injection
    • How to evolve the 3.x extension points bug 296739
  • We now have approval to use Firebug (low level JavaScript debugger for Firefox)
  • Working full steam on debug support for JavaScript in browsers
  • CSS
    • Refactoring CTabFolder/CTabItem to extract rendering and make it extensible via CSS
  • Working on 3-way merge of EMF models using EMF change recorder bug 295524
    • This is for reconciling user changes with new model changes coming from contributed bundles
    • User changes layout, shuts down, installs new bundles, and restarts. Now we need to reconcile the user's model changes with the contributions from the newly installed bundles
  • Working on compatibility layer again
    • New direction: fork of 3.x workbench code, deleted all internals, reimplement old APIs on e4 workbench
  • Open social gadgets
    • New contributor Lars pitching in
    • In contact with open social IDE people (Eclipse-based tooling for OpenSocial)
  • EclipseCon
    • Tom proposed tutorial on writing RCP apps in e4
    • Start talking about talk ideas on the mailing list

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