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With only Base IDE, Java IDE and UML installed, there are 233 items listed under the "Installed" tab in the Plugins Manager. If more features are installed, this number should be much bigger so the current default expanded state would be very hard for finding the feature/module of interest for deactivating or uninstalling. IMO, all top level features/modules should be collapsed by default, at least this is what it was in the old Module Manager feature. I'd call this a regression here.
It's not a regression, Plugin Manager UI must conform to its UI spec. not to old Module Manager UI spec. I miss the opportunity to affect UI review what run a month ago. Anyway, I attach this problem as some of problems for next round of UI spec. - issue 102289.
I don't disagree but if this is per ui spec, then there's problem in ui spec that's not addressing the usability. IMO, new replacement feature should at least address the usability of a previous feature being replaced. And this is one of the area not being considered.
Yes, I see the problem it will be considered again. But in general I don't think so all features of NB5.0 Autoupdate should be mirroring in Plugin Manager. Some of reason to contribute new one Plugin Manager is its simplification and to be more end-user centric as possible. This implies some facilities from old one feature won't in new one because are out of its scope.
After integrating issue 110566 the module itself can control if should be visible in Plugin Manager or not (attribute AutoUpdate-Show-In-Client: false or true in manifest.mf) This will help to hold down count of visible modules in PM.