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Bug 37664

Summary: [Plan Item] Improve initial user experience
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jim des Rivieres <jeem>
Component: UIAssignee: Kim Horne <eclipse>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 CC: konradk, manahan
Version: 2.1Keywords: plan
Target Milestone: 3.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:

Description Jim des Rivieres CLA 2003-05-15 10:42:03 EDT 
Improve initial user experience. Users who are new to an Eclipse-based product 
can find their first experiences with it overwhelming, even daunting. The 
initial experience would be improved if a product could preconfigure the 
workbench to show only the subset of function that a new user really needs; 
welcome pages could be personalized for particular users roles or levels of 
experience. [Platform UI] [Theme: User experience]
Comment 1 Chris McLaren CLA 2003-08-05 15:34:45 EDT 
FYI: A draft proposal for 'Contexts' has been posted to the Platform UI proposals page at:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-ui-home/docs.html.

It is expected that contexts will form *part* of the solution to this plan item.
Comment 2 Michael Van Meekeren CLA 2004-05-25 12:32:49 EDT 
done. Added support for Activities, Cheatsheets and the new Welcome
Comment 3 Kim Horne CLA 2004-07-06 09:25:44 EDT 
Closing.