E4/Meeting Minutes/Status 20120223

Attendees

• Brian
• John
• Oleg
• Dean
• McQ
• Remy
• Paul
• Bogdan
• Eric
• Tom
• Curtis
• David W

Minutes

• Need to figure out how to split stream CTabFolder and friends for 4.2
  • Fork SWT for 3.x vs 4.x
  • if/else blocks throughout the code
  • Two separate widgets
• Draggable trim at bottom of window now working
• Next will replace handles with image-based frames so they can be dragged
• Porting guide entries for all 3.x API that no longer works
• Deprecated old 3.x API that no longer works
• Some performance improvements on open/close view.. down to 0.17 seconds
• UI startup time is still 2x slower than 3.8 but greatly improved
• Finishing fixes for sending events when persisted state and transient data model state changes
• Removing editor left/right chevron arrows based on negative feedback
  • We will reconsider approach post Juno
  • Touch dragging might be worth exploring
• Should we be able to specify on-hover/disabled button states in our model
  • Currently model just includes one icon URI
  • Currently using transient data in model
  • Ideally we should be able to specify via CSS selectors for hover/disabled presentation
• Fixing problems in customize perspective dialog
• Looking at a Mylyn bug where trim contributions don't show up
• Working on action sets - Beware: action sets consume the unwary and cautious alike
  • Currently action sets not honouring CSS settings
• Helping new developers for cases when dependency injection fails
  • Looking at enabling some tracing to help people track down problems
  • Noticed JFace documentation in Platform Plugin Developer Guide is quite out of date
    • Brian to open a bug in Platform Doc
• Much of our CSS not following standard CSS web format
  • Should support pixel-level settings
  • Or prefix attributes with "-swt" to make it clear they are not standard attributes
• Common problem for developers that "inner" eclipse PermGen setting does not appear by default