Sounds like a good idea but people who are doing the real work have final word.

Tom

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> Am 19.11.2013 um 20:49 schrieb Joseph D Carroll Jr <[email protected]>:
> 
> Sounds like a great idea!  I think this is exactly what we need to 
> eliminate/keep superfluous elements from the model.  For example there could 
> be an entire tab dedicated towards "tags".  That way when you select 
> different model elements the list of available tags changes.
> 
> Even if there wasn't an immediate usecase, I feel that enhancements like this 
> will foster innovation moving forward and should be implemented.  Though Tom, 
> Sopot, and others would who invested a great amount of time into the e4 
> tooling would have final say, I would certainly support refactoring the code 
> to support such extensions.
> 
> Let me know if there is anything I can do.
> 
> JD
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Marco Descher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hy List,
>> 
>> WHAT
>> 
>> I would like to add horizontal extension possibility to the e4 tooling. That 
>> is, there already is the possibility to add new elements to the application 
>> model, and provide ones own editors
>> for the e4 tooling.  I would like to extend the tooling for already 
>> available elements by adding an extension point to the tooling itself.
>> 
>> WHY
>> 
>> I want to enrich already available elements with additional information. 
>> This could for example be used to add documentation information to all 
>> elements of the application model,
>> or would allow me to e.g. create an additional tab, valid only if I use the 
>> SWT renderer, allowing me to do deeper inspection of the model.
>> 
>> HOW
>> 
>> I plan to create an extension point allowing to contribute tabs to given 
>> elements, as can be seen in the following image. The extension point will 
>> have to define for
>> what model elements the contributed tab is valid, and on call of the editor 
>> the full model will be passed.
>> <epaddition.png>
>> 
>> Can you please give me any feedback, on what you think about this, who would 
>> back/mentor this implementation, and what he/she would do different?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> marco
>> 
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