Thanks Carsten for this effort. Improving the UI experience in the Eclipse IDE is an important topic for the Eclipse IDE users.
+1 for moving the project to e4 from me On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Carsten Reckord <reck...@yatta.de> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A few weeks back, Yatta launched a new experiment called "Sandbox for > Eclipse" on GitHub[1]. We would like to contribute this project to the > Eclipse Foundation and continue it there. We've discussed the project from > early on with Lars. He suggested to make it a part of the e4 project, since > it mostly touches on core Eclipse IDE aspects, and the incubator would give > us the necessary flexibility for its further development. > > You can read more about the idea behind Sandbox for Eclipse at [2]. > Essentially, we stripped down the Eclipse IDE to the barest minimal text > editor, with the goal to build a lean code editor product from the ground up, > focusing strongly on good UX and using (mostly) existing Eclipse technology. > Our plan is to extend this Sandbox Eclipse step by step, driven by user > feedback as well as analysis of popular light-weight editors like Atom, > Notepad++ or vs.code. Every change is to be driven by centering on the best > possible user experience, and the intention of the project is to be able to > roll out UX concepts and experiments and get feedback quickly. > > We expect a lot of the work on this project to come in the form of > configuration, assembly, and of course product management. Code contributions > will most likely be mostly for other Eclipse projects to fill in gaps, solve > UX issues or improve integration. > > Of course we also want to ship a useful product/package to end-users. Right > now, the - quite limited - text editor on GitHub is just a starting point > that's mostly of interest for potential contributors, but over time, this > should develop into an actual useful, lean editor in the vein of Atom or > Notepad++ (actually, that's a quite crucial part in order to elicit good > feedback from end-users). > > What do you think? Would the E4 incubator make a good home for this? > > Best, > Carsten > > - > [1] https://github.com/YattaSolutions/eclipse-sandbox > [2] > https://medium.com/@YattaSolutions/introducing-the-eclipse-sandbox-15053bd01421 > > -- > Yatta Solutions GmbH > - Carsten Reckord - > > t +49 69 2475666-33 > f +49 69 2475668-0 > e reck...@yatta.de > > Office Frankfurt a.M. > Mainzer Landstraße 50 > 60325 Frankfurt a.M. > > Office Kassel > Universitätsplatz 12 > 34127 Kassel > > Seat, Trade Register: > Registered seat: Kassel > Amtsgericht Kassel, HRB 14720 > VAT-ID DE263191529 > > Management: > Johannes Jacop > > Contact: > t +49 69 2475666-0 > f +49 69 2475668-0 > e i...@yatta.de > > > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > e4-dev@eclipse.org > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev -- Eclipse Platform UI and e4 project co-lead CEO vogella GmbH Haindaalwisch 17a, 22395 Hamburg Amtsgericht Hamburg: HRB 127058 Geschäftsführer: Lars Vogel, Jennifer Nerlich de Vogel USt-IdNr.: DE284122352 Fax (040) 5247 6322, Email: lars.vo...@vogella.com, Web: http://www.vogella.com _______________________________________________ e4-dev mailing list e4-dev@eclipse.org To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev
