On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Dmitry Boyarintsev < [email protected]> wrote:
> The problem with "tip of the day", is that it must be maintained according > to the IDE updates. > "Tip of the day" would be useless (and harmful), if it suggests a feature > that's no longer in the IDE. > > Another complication of the "TOTD" is that it needs to be translated. > Otherwise it's also useless, if the IDE runs in a language different that > IDE. > > "TOTD" must also be "environment" aware. Just as on your example - > there're hot-keys present. But a user could modify the hot-keys for > themselves. As well as "default" hot key layout is different from OS to > OS. So the implementation is not as trivial as "just read the list of html > pages and tips foldere and present them to a user on start". > > To summarize: adding "TOTD" to Lazarus will increase the maintenance cost > of the system! > > Instead of having TOTD - wiki pages should be popularized. > Reason - much greater number of people could contribute to it. Removing a > need of developers (or release builders) to maintain the set of "tips" in > IDE. > Also articles and personal blogs do typically cover a lot of "tips" that > could be found in TOTD. > Delphi (XEs shows the Embarcadero tips from your web site, suggesting frameworks, books etc.), Android Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans, Aptana Studio, Visual Studio, SmartGIT and a lot of others IDEs uses a TOTD style. Well, it was just a feature request based in an useful idea, but it can be discarded without problem. :-) -- Silvio Clécio My public projects - github.com/silvioprog
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