Ok. I got it now.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Kavith Lokuhewage <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Amila, > > Sorry if I mislead you with my suggestion. We will have to look more in to > eclipse startup process to see the possibility of this. > > With the previous approach, what we could see is that perspective is > rendered and loaded in the early stage of startup. Having the login window > shown upon perspective loading blocks the main UI thread (since its a > dialog box) and waits upon user's action. This caused eclipse loading to be > postponed till user reacts. > > To be clear, what I had in my mind is about a non-blocking approach to > give user some other kind of UI feedback. > > Thanks > > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Amila Maha Arachchi <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Regardless of having the credentials or not, can't we open up the login >> prompt after the perspective is loaded? If you can display a pop-up, you >> should be able to load the login prompt, isn't it? >> >> If we have the credentials, we can populate the login box, if not keep it >> empty. Is this possible? >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Kavith Lokuhewage <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Amila, >>> >>> Please find my comments in-line. >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Amila Maha Arachchi <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I requested for these meeting notes because I came to know that the >>>> login prompt was previously there and then removed. When I first tried to >>>> use the AF perspective it took minutes for me to figure out how to login. >>>> That icon was not very helpful. >>>> >>>> By going through the review notes, I see that if the credentials are >>>> not saved, it interrupts the startup of Eclipse. But it does not explain >>>> how, so I don't have any idea about it. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Previously, the login prompt was part of the App Factory perspective >>> startup process. During the perspective loading, if there are saved >>> credentials, it tries to authenticate automatically. Else, it displays the >>> login prompt. Thats how it worked before. >>> >>> Since Eclipse loads last opened perspective on startup, login prompt >>> interrupts startup in the second second scenario. >>> >>> During the meeting, it was agreed that automatic authentication should >>> be removed and saved credentials should only be used to re-populate login >>> window. >>> >>> To overcome interrupts to developer studio startup (refer to 3rd point >>> in meeting notes), it was decided to unlink login prompt from App Factory >>> perspective startup. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> But, IMO, removing the login prompt is a big hit for the usability. If >>>> we can't put it back, there should be a compensation to let the user know >>>> about it. >>>> >>> >>> As a suggestion, we can use some kind of pop-up text ("click here to >>> login") upon perspective loading to indicate users about the login button. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> *Kavith Lokuhewage* >>> Software Engineer >>> WSO2 Inc. - http://wso2.com >>> lean . enterprise . middleware >>> Mobile - +9477-9-145-123 | +9471-455-6-401 >>> Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kavith-lokuhewage/49/473/419> >>> Twitter <https://twitter.com/KavithThiranga> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> *Amila Maharachchi* >> Senior Technical Lead >> WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com >> >> Blog: http://maharachchi.blogspot.com >> Mobile: +94719371446 >> >> > > > -- > *Kavith Lokuhewage* > Software Engineer > WSO2 Inc. - http://wso2.com > lean . enterprise . middleware > Mobile - +9477-9-145-123 | +9471-455-6-401 > Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kavith-lokuhewage/49/473/419> > Twitter <https://twitter.com/KavithThiranga> > -- *Amila Maharachchi* Senior Technical Lead WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com Blog: http://maharachchi.blogspot.com Mobile: +94719371446
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