Start Eclipse CheatSheets in separate window/shell

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Start Eclipse CheatSheets in separate window/shell #1284

Open mickaelistria opened 6 years ago

mickaelistria commented 6 years ago

The current integration of cheatsheets open the cheatsheet inside the IDE as a view. This makes both the IDE and the cheatsheet feel more complicated. Instead of opening it as a view inside the workbench, it's be great to try starting it as a view on a new workbench window so user can work on both without feeling one is disturbing usage of the other. cc @dgolovin

dgolovin commented 6 years ago

We should try how it would work out, current implementation just use default location for Cheatsheet view (see details here https://github.com/jbdevstudio/jbdevstudio-product/pull/488). It might be confusing because we already have a lot of popping up windows at the first start.

mickaelistria commented 6 years ago

Could some popup windows be turned into notications? A workbench listener to detach the chearsheet view when opened for the 1st time could work. Maybs there's even already a preference for thst. And if not it can be an enhancement for Photon.

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dgolovin commented 6 years ago

There are two popup window I am aware of:

opt in to usage stat request
runtime detection Not sure if that would be useful to turn them to notifications, probably not.

Normally usage appears first and then runtime detection jumps over it. If we have third it would probably can jump up at any position before/after/between those two.

This detached cheatsheet looks like good but minor improvement to me, because opening requested guided development at startup as a cheatsheet saves time and provides clear understanding what to do next.