Description Simon Archer 2006-06-23 11:31:04 EDT

The form-based manifest editor's Dependencies page has a list of "Required Plug-ins".  This list has Copy and Paste context menu items.  While the Copy menu item seems to work (to some degree, see below for more on this), I have never managed to get the Paste menu item to work.

Even when I Copy an existing plug-in from the list, remove it, and then try and Paste it back it does not work.  Therefore, it seems to me that Paste simply has not been implemented.

Regarding the Copy menu option, I am surprised that this puts XML in the clipboard, for example:

  <import plugin="org.junit"/>

This XML looks like something from plugin.xml in the pre-OSGi days.  For this reason I would say that this text is of no value.  While I understand that multiple formats can be copied to the clipboard at the same time, I would have expected that the text "org.junit" would have been one of the formats.  This, I would say, is what the user would expect.

Being able to copy and paste multiple plug-ins from the Required Plug-in list of one plug-in and paste them into the Required Plug-in list of another plug-in would be very helpful to me.

Additionally, it would be useful to copy multiple plug-ins from the Plug-in Dependencies list in the Package Explorer and paste them into either the Required Plug-ins list, or the Automated Management of Dependencies list of another plug-in.  While pasting directly into the Plug-in Dependencies list of another plug-in sounds like a good idea, I'm not sure quite how that would be handled.

This bug is closely related to bug 135558, in that it talks about cut and paste and the strange XML format.