Monthly Archives: May 2015

“Eclipse Rich Client Platform” book – Revised third edition available based on Eclipse 4.4

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Lars Vogel

I’m happy to announce that the revisted third edition of the Eclipse RCP book is available. It has been updated to Eclipse 4.4 and contains lots of small corrections and clarifications. The update resulted in approx. 100 more pages.

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Honored to become Eclipse PDE committer

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Lars Vogel

I’m happy to announce that I was elected as PDE committer. This made the integration of the new png icons in PDE much easier. I plan to work on the PDE templates and improve the PDE tooling for the IDE … Continue reading →

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Welcome Dirk Fauth as a new eclipse.platform.ui Committer

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Lars Vogel

I would like to welcome Dirk Fauth as new platform.ui committer. Dirk is the project lead of NatTable project and a very active contributor to several Eclipse projects. Dirk recently also won the Greatfix price and has indicated that he … Continue reading →

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Dark Eclipse PDE got better due to Tony McCrary and his icon work

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Lars Vogel

And Tony McCrary continues his awesome icon contributions, this time we managed to integrate new icons for PDE, which will look much nicer on a dark background. For example look at the icons in the following screenshot in the forms … Continue reading →

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