Project: Eclipse_Platform_UI
Bug 16199 new welcome page presentation
Reported: 2002-05-16 16:10:10 | Status: resolved fixed

Notes from a discussion with Kevin H before lunch: The workbench should have a Help -> "Getting Started" menu item that opens a dialog of some sort; the dialog presents a list of all features with a welcome page ("welcomePage" property in feature's plug-in's about.ini file) and affords the user some way to make a single selection. The selected feature's welcome page is then presented in the editor. The new property (in a feature's plug-in's about.ini file) will be called "welcomePerspective". The value is the id of the perspective that this feature would like its welcome page to open up in. This property is optional; if not specified, the feature isn't picky.

Files changed in fix:
bundles/org.eclipse.ui/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/AboutInfo.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/QuickStartAction.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/WelcomePageSelectionDialog.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/Workbench.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/WorkbenchActionBuilder.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/dialogs/AboutFeaturesDialog.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/dialogs/WelcomeEditor.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/dialogs/WelcomeEditorInput.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/dialogs/WelcomeEditorInputFactory.java