[Cs-studio-core] FW: Eclipse Welcome Framework >> Universal Intro

[Kasemir, K. <kas...@or...>]

Hi:

I'm moving this to the mailing list since I guess we want to encourage
everybody to use the universal intro.

Rehash of recent emails:

CSS products always used an Eclipse "Welcome" screen to introduce users to
the first steps, for example how to download more plugins, how to try things
with example PVs, etc.

Nadine suggested using the "Universal Intro" framework because that way
every plugin can provide intro content without having to update the product.
The product integrator still has some control:
Can arrange some site-specific content to always show first, or suppress
content that's not needed.

ITER, NSLS 2 and SNS tried it out and are basically happy with the approach.
Guidelines and remaining discussions are on
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/cs-studio/wiki/IntroPages, which is mostly

1) What intro pages should we use?
   So far agreement on using only overview, firststeps, whatsnew.

2) Put intro into separate plugins?
   More work, more plugins, but probably better in the long run.

Thanks,
Kay