E4/Meeting Minutes/Status 2010014

Attendees

• Bogdan Gheorghe
• Boris Bokowski
• Dan Rubel
• Eric Moffatt
• Lars Vogel
• McQ
• Oleg Besedin
• Paul Webster
• Remy Suen
• Simon Kaegi
• Susan McCourt
• Yves Yang

Minutes

• Compatibility layer making good progress
  • Getting the error log to show
  • Infrastructure created for running 3.x stream tests against compatibility layer
• Bug fixing on model reconciler

• Extensibility to e4 model
• Model components: model snippets that can be merged with base application model
• A bundle that provides base application model

• Getting css engine to style in terms of model parts rather than widgets
  • Allows more reuse of styling data with different renderers

• Support for perspectives working in e4 model (aka shared parts)

• Many e4 talks accepted at EclipseCon, looks like good coverage
• Beginning of regular call of E4/Evangelism group
  • Share material, give consistent messages
  • Gather information on upcoming e4 talks

• Wrapping up e4 M3
• Will tag all examples, etc, for M3 so we have a consistent baseline

• Visual design discussions ongoing
  • Please comment on design mockups
  • Need to coordinate design discussions along various dimensions (whitespace, tabs, use of color, etc)
  • Need to document how to tweak various style elements so people can play around with it and style their applications differently

• XWT
  • e4 workbench integration: using data binding for part change notification (e.g., dirty state)
  • e4 workbench designer: layered organization management: can now use DnD to change part layout
  • See M3 New & Noteworthy for details