Fabian,
Comments below.
On 13/07/2013 1:57 PM, Fabian Steeg wrote:
I think the discussion about getting new contributors is good and
important.
Just one thought on a different aspect however: it seems many user
issues come down to the default settings (about half of the top 10 on
the site, and both bugs mentioned by Denis).
Yes, I was just chatting to someone else about that today.
Changing them has been tried and doesn't seem to work.
No, it will just annoy the hell out of people, much like the latest
software update made all my firefox tabs bigger. I didn't ask for that
and had to Google to find out how to make them smaller again, and even
now, that style setting makes the font smaller, so it just don't look
the same anymore (the same size tabs but smaller fonts). It's just not
an improvement! I really hate it, though I don't hate firefox!
Could some sort of settings profiles/themes help instead?
How about something like a prominent "configure" on the welcome page
which brings up a wizard that includes the top 10 settings for behaviors
that people complain and are completely configurable to eliminate those
complaints.
I'm thinking something like an option to select the settings profile
in the workspace selection dialog - out of the box there could simply
be two options: 'built-in Eclipse settings' and 'Eclipse community
settings' (which could be the most starred settings profile available
on the marketplace or so).
It would still be nice to easily deviate from this, without having to
find the preferences in the rat's nest of preference. Determining the
"most hated default settings" and the "most hated behaviors configurable
via settings" and making the user aware of their total control over
these things on first start up seems like a good solution.
This could not only fix issues that make people angry, but on the
positive side also introduce them to many awesome Eclipse features
they didn't know about, and increase the feeling of community
influence on how Eclipse behaves.
I agree that something along these lines would be a good thing to
explore. It's silly to have people hate Eclipse because it doesn't show
line numbers by default in the text editors. I personally hate line
numbers. They're a waste of valuable space. But that's just my biased
opinion.
Cheers,
Fabian
On 12.07.2013, at 18:25, Doug Schaefer <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
It is. And I'm sure there are hate sites for every tool people use.
Eclipse isn't unique that way.
My point is that user experience is so important to our success, we
need to be sensitive to the issues our users are facing. There are a
lot of such issues marked WONTFIX, and CDT is as guilty of that as
anyone. I'm just wondering how we fix it.
Doug.
From: Denis Roy <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: Cross project issues <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Friday, 12 July, 2013 5:54 PM
To: "[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>"
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] FW: [Doug on the Eclipse CDT]
New comment on "Eclipse smells kind of dead"???.
Actually, I think it is awesome feedback, since there are only a
handful of issues that seem to raise the anger levels.
I was able to trace a few of the top items to some old bugs:
File out of sync:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=228039
Line numbers on by default:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=191154
Those bugs are fairly old and both are closed WONTFIX. It would be
interesting if they could be reopened for discussion.
Denis
On 07/12/2013 11:31 AM, Doug Schaefer wrote:
http://www.ihateeclipse.com <http://www.ihateeclipse.com/> ???
Pretty awesome feedback from our passionate user base.
:D
From: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Friday, 12 July, 2013 5:29 PM
To: Doug Schaefer <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Fw: [Doug on the Eclipse CDT] New comment on "Eclipse
smells kind of dead"???.
*From: *Alex Lagarde
*Sent: *Friday, July 12, 2013 11:25 AM
*To: *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject: *[Doug on the Eclipse CDT] New comment on "Eclipse smells
kind of
dead"???.
Alex Lagarde <http://www.blogger.com/profile/06754768116468218364>
has left a new comment on your post ""Eclipse smells kind of
dead"???
<http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com/2013/07/eclipse-smells-kind-of-dead.html>":
Interesting post. Maybe even worst than bugzillas that get no answer
are general complaints about Eclipse/Projects that never were raised
as issues. That's why this Website, as painfull as it is, provides
very interesting feedback http://www.ihateeclipse.com/
We may have to think about a better way for end-user to raise such
"feelings" (maybe an amazon-like rating system which would allow to
very quickly rate from 0 to 5 stars a feature or a project).
Posted by Alex Lagarde to Doug on the Eclipse CDT
<http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com/> at 4:25 PM GMT+1
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