Initiative 31: Investigating Options to Modernize Eclipse SWT and Eclipse IDE's UI UX - OCX 2024

Learn about a critical modernization effort for the Eclipse IDE's user interface in this 38-minute conference talk from the Eclipse Foundation. Discover why the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) needs updating after 20 years and how Initiative 31 aims to address declining user acceptance through UI/UX improvements. Explore the technical challenges of maintaining native widget implementations across three operating systems and understand the proposed solution of creating a new OS-independent SWT implementation. Gain insights into the project's evaluation criteria, prototyping phase, and potential technologies being considered. Follow the initiative's progress toward modernizing Eclipse's look and feel while maintaining backward compatibility for existing applications. Get details on how to contribute to this important transformation of the Eclipse development environment, with no prior knowledge required.