Hi, Elias.
Great screencast!  I found that the live demo really helped, in particular
emphasizing how the ribbon groupings depict the perspective switch. I found
that the perspective change seems less "jarring" to me when selected that
way, though I'd have to really use it to confirm this feeling.  It was also
cool to see the menu bar popping in.

We have numerous bugs about using the ribbon, but I didn't see one tracking
the question of  "should we use this in the Eclipse SDK UI?" so I opened
one.  [1].  I marked it with a 4.0 milestone, but I realize there's no
technical reason it would have to be in 4.0.  I do think that it will
become interesting to consider the ribbon organization when considering the
other visual design changes for 4.0 [2].

susan

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=298481
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=293481


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On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Susan Franklin McCourt <
[email protected]> wrote:
  Also, do you have a link (blog, bug, whatever) to the preferred place
  where we can monitor your experiments in the ribbon space? Fun to
  watch....


Susan and e4-dev,

I've begun to blog about my ribbon experiments (with a short screencast):
http://eclipsenuggets.blogspot.com.

The code is available on github under EPL (
http:/github.com/elias42/ribbonide), but it still needs some work before I
could ship something genuinely useful.

Technically it is based on Eclipse 3.5.x. It provides an application for
the IDE that adds the ribbon widget via the window advisor and a custom
presentation. My goal is to flesh these things out over the holidays.

Elias.
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