On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Andrey Loskutov <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:00:07 +0200, Paul Webster <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>  I didn't think that menu was open to contributions in 3.x.
>>
>
> StackPresentation had this API where one could hook custom actions:
>
> /**
>  * Instructs the presentation to display the system menu
>  */
> public abstract void showSystemMenu();


That's replacing the presentation in 3.x, not simply extending the menu.
The Eclipse 4.2 equivalent to implementing a presentation would be
replacing the renderers, like StackRenderer, and providing new CSS.



>
>
>  That being said,  the StackRenderer is currently providing that menu.
>> It's not open to extension at the moment.
>>
>
> It would be nice to allow 3rd party to extend the menu. I have no way
> right now to port parts of the Extended VS Presentation plugin
> functionality on 4.2 without this (see attached picture for an example menu
> I offered on 3.x). Is there a bug for it? Should I open one?
>
>
I think it's worth a bug.  Maybe we can model the stack menu and so allow
contributions to it without having to replace the entire renderer.

PW


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Paul Webster
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