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Fred Bricon commented on JBIDE-18813:
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Pretty nice.
2 remarks though :
- is the list of projects really mixing regular wizards and quickstarts? If that's the
case, what makes a quickstart appear in the shortlist? would have bee favorited?
- can we add the open on startup checkbox somewhere?
Convert JBoss Central to an HTML5 page
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Key: JBIDE-18813
URL:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-18813
Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
Issue Type: Enhancement
Components: central
Affects Versions: 4.3.0.Alpha1
Reporter: Fred Bricon
Assignee: Fred Bricon
Fix For: 4.3.0.Beta1
Attachments: Central Design Concept A.bmml, Central Design Concept A.bmml,
Central Design Concept A.bmml, Central Design Concept A.png, Central Design Concept
B.bmml, Central Design Concept B.bmml, Central Design Concept B.png, Central design
concept E.bmml, Central design concept E.png, Design concept C - Search centric
layout.bmml, Design concept C - Search centric layout.png, Design Concept D - categories
across top.bmml, Design Concept D - categories across top.bmml, Design Concept D -
categories across top.png, JBoss Access Panel Concept.bmml, JBoss Access Panel
Concept.png, JBoss Central User Stories and Flows.gliffy,
JBossCentral_DesignC_HighFidelity_InitialState.png,
JBossCentral_DesignC_HighFidelity_SearchState.png,
JBossCentral_DesignC_HighFidelity_SmallScreen_InitialState.png,
JBossCentral_DesignC_HighFidelity_SmallScreen_SearchState.png,
JBossCentral_DesignC_HighFidelity_SmallScreen_StarterHover.png,
JBossCentral_DesignC_HighFidelity_StarterHover.png, Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 4.38.58
PM.png
Central Page requires new capabilities :
- needs more customization (display content depending on user preferences)
- needs to scale with JBDS-IS, Fuse content
- access to more examples, with filtering capabilities
Given that the existing page is pretty hard to maintain and suffers from scalability/UI
bugs, we're heading towards an HTML5 approach :
- use an embedded SWT Browser widget (or Java FX), depending on the platform
compatibility
- webpage and its content could be served remotely (as zip), and downloaded locally for
offline use. this would give us more flexibility to update the content.