By Chris Goldthorpe, IBM. Last revised 09/21/2009
All of the feature requests for Eclipse 3.6 can be found in Bugzilla. Below is a summary of the planned new features together with a link to the corresponding Bugzilla entry which contains more information.
[Webapp] Help system webapp: Provide footer area like banner area (persistent, across browser window, optional)
Allow a footer to be added to the help webapp by setting a customization property.
This has been requested to allow copyright information to be displayed at the bottom
of the help frames.
[Help] Add alphabetical ordering attribute to TOC DTD
This allows anchor nodes in the table of contents to have their children sorted alphabetically.
Add child links to topics with content at runtime.
Allows elements in the table of content which are anchors to contain
hyperlinks to each of their children.
[Webapp] Allow additional views to be added to the help webapp
[Webapp] Allow additional frame(s) below content frame
[Webapp] Allow additional buttons to be added to the help webapp.
The next three enhancements will make it easier to create UA content.
[Intro] Make the RSS news reader reusable
Mechanism for publishing internal resources of cheatsheet plugin
Additional help / debugging for CSH issues
[Help] Cannot change font size in help view (Windows or Macintosh)
Remote UA: What to do when local and remote plug-ins are both present
[Help][Index] See references added to the keyword index
The keyword index in Eclipse is missing a standard feature of an index, the
ability to display synonyms as links to another keyword.