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Bug 163646

Summary:	Welcome screen has Activate Features item, but plugins dialog makes no sense from it
Product:	platform	Reporter:	_ tboudreau <tboudreau>
Component:	Plugin Manager	Assignee:	issues@ide <issues>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jtulach, olangr
Priority:	P3
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description _ tboudreau 2009-04-25 00:45:30 UTC

In the 6.7 welcome screen, the welcome screen has a clickable item "Activate Features".  If you click it, the Tools >
Plugins dialog is opened on the Installed tab.

That UI allows you to *uninstall* features.  It does not allow you to activate anything.  I suspect users will think
they should go here to "activate" features, but they will end up uninstalling things instead.

I expect most people will not read the text below (which does say users can activate features), they will just click
"Activate Features" and either be confused or, worse, uninstall things they need.

Either the text "Activate Features" should not invoke any UI, or it should invoke a UI that actually lets you activate
things.  If we do not plan to have a UI for activating features explicitly, probably the title text should be something
like "Automatic Feature Activation" and not appear to be a call to action.

Comment 1 Jaroslav Tulach 2009-04-27 09:46:40 UTC

Yes, the UI is bad. We are working on fix in issue 163411.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 163411 ***