Dear all,

I am in the process to replace icons used in the help documents with SVG 
version of these icons.
See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=548008

In most cases these SVGs are available anyhow because we use these SVGs to 
render (high resolution) PNGs to be used in the “normal” plugins.
Scaling up these isn’t a problem.
For Screenshots that are used in the help documents SVGs are not an option.
Diagrams used in the documentation (like used in 
https://help.eclipse.org/2019-06/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2FgettingStarted%2Fintro%2Foverview.htm&cp=0_0
 ) can also be changed to SVGs. For this example I have already done this with 
https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/143451/ so scaling wouldn’t also be
a problem for these.

We shouldn’t do anything to make existing graphics (like screenshots) look more 
bad as the already look today (especially on high resolution displays).


Regards,
Matthias

From: <platform-dev-boun...@eclipse.org> on behalf of Sravan K Lakkimsetti 
<sravankum...@in.ibm.com>
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Date: Thursday, 11. July 2019 at 10:47
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Subject: Re: [platform-dev] Increase initial size for Eclipse help

I agree on the modernization of help.

In the short term we could use increase of initial size and resizing of images 
using css. As resizing causes images to lose information while downsizing. 
These images would appear quite bad on the first look.
I will do some experiments on how to include a magnifier.

Thanks
Sravan

From: Mike Wilson <mike_wil...@ca.ibm.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2019 6:03 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [platform-dev] Increase initial size for Eclipse help

I don't see what the *initial* size for the help window has to do with 
anything. Screenshots should scale to fit if the window is too small (ideally 
with a "magnifier" tool to show them full size, if required).

The help system UI (and likely the backend too) really desperately needs to be 
modernized. Responsive UIs are table stakes now.

McQ.

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Hi,



Initial size for eclipse help is set at 1024x768. This resulted in having max 
size of images in N&N and help documentation to 520. We are considering 
increasing this to 1600x900. This would allow us to have screenshots/images in 
help files/N&N up to 720 pixels.



If any one has objections please let us know in Bug 
547897<https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=547897> - Investigate 
column widths for N&N documentation



Thanks

Sravan

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