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Bug 268827

Summary: Rename "Show Managed State for dependencies"
Product: projects Reporter: terje7601
Component: MavenAssignee: Tomas Stupka <tstupka>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 8.2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description terje7601 2016-11-04 13:17:45 UTC 
When right-clicking the "Dependencies" node of a Maven project, there's a boolean setting "Show Managed State for dependencies". From this description, it's a mystery to me what this option does, and googling it doesn't help either. Eventually I found out by looking at the source code that it adds a "badge" for dependencies which are declared in the dependencyManagement section.

I'd propose to rename the setting to "Mark managed dependencies". Using "Mark" clearly indicates that this is merely turning on/off a visual indicator. And googling "managed dependencies maven" will quickly get you to understand what this does.