<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Dmitry Boyarintsev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skalogryz.lists@gmail.com" target="_blank">skalogryz.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>The problem with "tip of the day", is that it must be maintained according to the IDE updates.<br>
</div>"Tip of the day" would be useless (and harmful), if it suggests a feature that's no longer in the IDE.<br>
</div><div></div><div><br></div>Another complication of the "TOTD" is that it needs to be translated. Otherwise it's also useless, if the IDE runs in a language different that IDE.<br><br></div><div>"TOTD" must also be "environment" aware. Just as on your example - there're hot-keys present. But a user could modify the hot-keys for themselves. As well as "default" hot key layout is different from OS to OS. So the implementation is not as trivial as "just read the list of html pages and tips foldere and present them to a user on start".<br>
</div><div><br></div>To summarize: adding "TOTD" to Lazarus will increase the maintenance cost of the system!<br></div><br>Instead of having TOTD - wiki pages should be popularized. <br>Reason - much greater number of people could contribute to it. Removing a need of developers (or release builders) to maintain the set of "tips" in IDE.<br>
</div>Also articles and personal blogs do typically cover a lot of "tips" that could be found in TOTD.</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Delphi (XEs shows the Embarcadero tips from your web site, suggesting frameworks, books etc.), Android Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans, Aptana Studio, Visual Studio, SmartGIT and a lot of others IDEs uses a TOTD style.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Well, it was just a feature request based in an useful idea, but it can be discarded without problem. :-)<br></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Silvio Clécio<br>My public projects - <a href="http://github.com/silvioprog" target="_blank">github.com/silvioprog</a>
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