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Bug 243314

Summary:	Please provide a http link from with Tools/Plugins/Available Plugins
Product:	platform	Reporter:	tomzi <tomzi>
Component:	Autoupdate	Assignee:	Libor Fischmeistr <lfischmeistr>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	8.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	IDE log

Description tomzi 2014-03-27 09:58:35 UTC

Please let have me 
- be able to click on a link from within the Plugins Pop up, which refers me to the http://plugins.netbeans.org, eg on the Available Plugins page next to the 'Check for Newest' Button
- have a link for each Plugin its plugin page on the Netbeans homepage, eg right after the 'Homepage' link in the Description.

The usecase for both is, that I'd like to see:
- Whats new in this version
- Comments to see what other user say, or make comments myself

without having to go to google, type 'Netbeans', find the 'Plugins' page, find the plugin itself...

Product Version = NetBeans IDE 8.0 (Build 201403101706)
Operating System = Linux version 3.5.0-47-generic running on amd64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.7.0_51
Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 24.51-b03

Comment 1 tomzi 2014-03-27 09:58:39 UTC

Created attachment 146347 [details]
IDE log

Comment 2 tomzi 2014-04-01 09:15:46 UTC

Another use case:
- When I found a bug or want to do an enhancement request I would goto Tools/Plugins/Installed and find the target plugin and there I'd expect some link to (at least) the 'plugin.netbeans.org/...' plugin page, even better an additional link to the homepage of the plugin or EVEN better a link to the issue tracker of the plugin