Matt brought to my attention that two of the things we worked on (One of which I presented in a poster session at EclipseCon 2005) together at IBM are gaining traction with the core Eclipse platform team –
- Control Sets: The ability to make rich contributions (more rich than the buttons/menus enabled by actions) to coolbars, toolbars, and the status line. We created our own extension point to do just that for IBM Workplace Managed Client (or whatever the management team has decided to call it today)
- Personalities: The ability to fully control how the window is drawn in a soup to nuts fashion as is possible with the advisor, but such that more than one different kind of window can cohabitate simultaneously in the same VM/Eclipse Platform session
Good to see our ideas weren’t so crazy after all 🙂
Nice to see you’re still involved and I’m looking forward to more of your contributions. The beauty of open source is that you and I can continue to work together 🙂
ka-booyah! Good news!
Aww, look, it’s a reunion, how cute. 😛