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IDE
This page can be used as a portal for documentation related to IDE improvements.
Pages
- Criticism contains a list of articles bashing Eclipse IDE (and then providing ideas of what to improve).
- Developement Themes lists the things contrbutors have identified as themes to improve Eclipse IDE.
Contributions
Things people are actually working on to improve the IDE.
- Launch ToolBar (Doug) - seen around EclipseCon. More details later.
- Eclipse legacy workbench on JavaFX (Doug based on Tom Schind's work) - happening at http://github.com/swt-javafx for now. more details later.
- Improve Import workflow (Pascal) - GSoC - https://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Ideas#Simplification_of_the_import_wizards
- Filesystem centric view of the projects (Pascal) - GSoC - https://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Ideas#Filesystem_centric_view_of_the_projects
- Notification center (Pascal) - GSoC - https://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Ideas#Notification_Center_for_Eclipse