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Build ID: M20070212-1330 Steps To Reproduce: Mylar's UI is great, but not very discoverable - you need to learn your way around the hard way. Some things that could help fix it: * Add context menu and tool tips for things. * I'd like to be able to open the yellow sticky showing the context via the mouse - not just ctrl-alt-shift-arrow. I'd like a context menu * I'd like more info on why Mylar is doing what it's doing. Show in the context menu the state of each file. If a file is a landmark, when I right click, it shouldn't say Make Landmark (but perhaps inform me that it already is...) * I'd like a way to remove files from the context - via the mouse/yellow sticky In short, a mroe discoverable, communicative UI would unleash the power of Mylar to users gradually as they go about their regular work, instead of having to set aside time to learn Mylar - which is exactly Mylar's goal More information:
(In reply to comment #0) > Build ID: M20070212-1330 > * Add context menu and tool tips for things. Please try thew new dev build: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/dev/e3.3 If any tooltips or context menus are missing please specify which ones. > * I'd like to be able to open the yellow sticky showing the context via the > mouse - not just ctrl-alt-shift-arrow. I'd like a context menu Menu bar -> Navigate -> Context Quick View. We could consider adding an action to the toolbar too. I'm not sure if it is worth the toolbar real-estate though. > * I'd like more info on why Mylar is doing what it's doing. Show in the context > menu the state of each file. If a file is a landmark, when I right click, it > shouldn't say Make Landmark (but perhaps inform me that it already is...) This disabling will be done as part of bug 154438. > * I'd like a way to remove files from the context - via the mouse/yellow sticky You should be able to remove them using the Remove From Focus action or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Down. > In short, a mroe discoverable, communicative UI would unleash the power of Mylar > to users gradually as they go about their regular work, instead of having to set > aside time to learn Mylar - which is exactly Mylar's goal Yup, our goal is definitely to make the UI as discoverable and self-evident as possible, especially since there are quite a few new concepts going on.
Please report any additional requests to facilitate discoverability as new bugs.
