E4/Meeting Minutes/Status 20091203

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

• Working on sharing parts between perspectives bug 284610
• Tweaking of e4 workbench model bug 296478

• 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