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| Summary: | Two different "Plugins" dialogs | ||
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| Product: | platform | Reporter: | Marian Mirilovic <mmirilovic> |
| Component: | Plugin Manager | Assignee: | Jaroslav Tulach <jtulach> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | blocker | CC: | anebuzelsky, jtulach, olangr, pjiricka |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 6.x | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 162673 | ||
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Description
Marian Mirilovic
2009-04-16 12:11:30 UTC
Why me? :-) I agree ... The main purpose of having coarse module granularity is so that users can turn functionality easily on/off, and the modules should be exposed in equal granularity no matter how the dialog is invoked. As for whether this option should be persistent, I have no strong opinion about it but I tend to say no for a simple reason - I don't expect the dialog to be accessed in a common memory span for such data. Which means every time the dialog would be invoked, it would be displayed in "simple" view. Any objections, thoughts? I guess this is for Jarda ... correct me if I'm wrong ... "user is able to open the same dialog" - that is quite common all over the IDE. New File vs. popup/New opens the same dialog with different initial set up. Also the welcome screen opens different tab than Tools/Plugins. Is this no inconsistency to complain about? Probably not. I am surprised that two completely different gestures leading to dialog with different tab selected and preset selected is considered P2 bug. In my opinion different granularity makes a lot of sense. While the "welcome screen" entry point is for newcomers to set up their system, the Tools/Plugin entry point is for expert users. Obviously the later shall see advanced mode. But this is my last and only argument. As has been discussed on Friday Apr 17, 2009 we need to change Plugin manager in following way:
> * no matter how the dialog will be accessed, simple view will be shown by default
This bug will be fixed as soon as outstanding issue, like 163411 are solved. If for some reason the outstanding issues are found unfixable, or new problems are found, the consistency is going to be sacrificed in the name of correctness. Agreed in: >> Conclusions: >> >> * no matter how the dialog will be accessed, simple view will be shown by >> default > > I understood, that if the following conditions are successfully resolved (and > everyone decided to help with that and dedicate necessary time), then the > above will happen. And Ondřej agreed. Will be fixed as soon as patch http://www.netbeans.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/81538/162820.diff attached to issue 163411 is applied. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 163411 *** v/c |