Is there example for Eclipse RCP based application that doesn't look like engineering tool, but rather more friendly to a regular user, so I could learn from it (open source preferred)?
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You probably want ot take a look at the following two presentations:
- “RCP Custom Look and Feel” - http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/RCP_Custom_Look_and_Feel - from the Eclipse Wiki will give you a good starting point to some of the possible strategies. It does not cover all strategies - e.g. theming and e4...
- “Changing the look and feel of Eclipse applications” - download : http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/org.eclipse.ui.examples.presentation/eclipsecon2005-presentationsAPI.ppt?revision=1.1&view=co - a presentation from EclipseCon 2005 that describes the basic ideas behind the Presentation API. Note though that the only real way to create a new presentation, is to clone one of the existing ones and and then start modifying the code.
If you want to use CSS styling, when consider using Eclipse 4 (often dupped e4) as the basis for your application. Here you have a very large degree of freedom!
Good luck!
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I looked at e4 samples, all of them remind Eclipse IDE (even when colored differently with CSS). – Michael Spector Jun 14 '11 at 04:55
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It all depends on how different a look you want for your application. If you want some style your application like winamp or similar, I really don't think Eclipse RCP is the right starting point as a framework. At least that is what I normally teach people in RCP classes. – Tonny Madsen Jun 14 '11 at 07:16
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A great example of what is possible with Eclipse RCP is Lotus Notes 8:
I am not sure how they adapted the UI but assume they used the Presentation API and did some manual SWT work.
You might be interested in Eclipse Riena. From the project page:
...the Riena user interface components will support a business process oriented user interface visualization and navigation metaphor which can be used as alternative to the default workbench layout.
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