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When a new feature is installed if it has a welcome.xml there is no way to force it to show up the first time the eclipse is launched after installing the feature. Now that the user has this new handy dandy function products would like the user to be able to see the welcome page without having to go to the welcome dialog. This is of course in the case of the addition of a feature with a older workspace not a fresh workspace.
After installing an extension , it’s welcome page should be presented to the user. The primary purpose of the main welcome page is to introduce someone into the product. Once new functionality is installed through an extension the extension’s welcome should be presented in order to introduce the new functionality. This is critical for us so we have up'd the priority accordingly. Without this ability a user may fail to find new functionality.
By forcing the welcome page are we also saying this should be done in using the perspective that could be associated to the welcome in the associated branding plug-in about.ini config? Will also need to consider the use case when multiple extensions are added at the same time. What is the pecking order? Do we just open one or all?
Could have a special welcome page for feature updates with a generic description, and pointing to Help / Welcome... if there are new welcome pages. Could also embed links to the new pages directly in this page.
Welcome should use the perspective last left open. If the new extension provides a new perspective which it would like to display the welcome page should open in that perspective. In the case of multiple extensions: 1) last man in wins the race in terms of perspective viewed. 2) For welcome pages you should be able to show them all.
* I concur with Peter. * An additional idea (although I don't know if I like this & you should ask julian) is that if multiple extensions come along and hence multiple welcomes would appear, the platform could should a welcome page listing the newly installed extensions and show allow you to click on them to get their welcome. There are no doubt a number of possible other ideas that I am sure will come up as you look to implement this one. With respect to nick's comments 1) We do not want another special mechanism. There is already a welcome mechanism defined for this (see peter's note) 2) This is not just an update issue (i.e. features updated from the web etc). It also relates to the wsad -> wsadie upgrade case. At the end of upgrading to wsadie we should be able to make it look like that's what you started with. 3) Even in the case where we are adding onto some other product (again without actually deploying through update, but instead through an install) we also want to be able to have our welcome show up.
Needed for 2.0.1.
We can automatically open the welcome page for a new feature on restart. As mentioned, if multiple new features are present we could open the welcome page for each of them with the final one getting to choose the perspective. In practice it seems not many features are specifying a particular perspective for their welcome page. This behavoir is differerent than startup where we only show the welcome page for the primary feature. The first link on the platform welcome page opens the Help>Welcome dialog showing the list of installed features which supplied welcome pages.
How would we determine which new features there were? Require new API from update-core for this.
Vlad recommends we keep the list of features/versions as state, and compare on each startup.
Released changes to 2.0.1 and 2.1
Running the 20020806 build on an old workspace, I got all 3 welcome pages when it came up. Should avoid opening the welcome pages if the old list of features was not remembered.
Fixed to ensure welcome pages are not shown unless we have the old list of features.
2.0.1 build 20020821 Not sure if this is working correctly. I have a fresh install, new workspace. When I start I get one welcome page "Eclipse Platform". I close it and restart and it stays closed. Now I go to a local update site and -install the P3ML feature from WSDD 5.0 build 23415 (which, I'm pretty sure, doesn't have a welcome page) -restart and now have three welcome pages for Eclipse PDE, Eclipse JDT and Eclipse Platform (again). That doesn't seem right. Should I have gotten all three welcome pages when I ran the 2.0.1 build for the first time on a fresh workspace? Someone please give the URL for an update site that has features with a welcome page. I'd like to test this more.
It works as expected for me at: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-update- home/site/ Try installing a version of alphbet soup On restart the welcome pages (and only those pages) for the new features appeared. What is the url for the update site you had the problem with so I can try to recreate.
Knut could you attach your update log Help>About>Configuration Details> the *** Update Manager Log: section
The update site is on a ral6f drive. I don't think you can access it. If you can find a WSDD 5.0 build in OTT you should be able to try this out. Here's the update log: *** Update Manager Log: Configuration=Aug 22, 2002 7:33:09 PM Current configuration=false Date=Thu Aug 22 19:33:09 EDT 2002 Target=file:D:/Images/Eclipse/dev/eclipse/ Action=Site installed Status=Success Date=Thu Aug 22 19:33:10 EDT 2002 Target=file:D:/Images/Eclipse- Workspaces/inner/.metadata/.config/platform.cfg.metadata/LocalSite.xml Action=Reconcile Status=Success ---------------------------------------------------- Configuration=Aug 22, 2002 7:33:50 PM Current configuration=true Date=Thu Aug 22 19:33:56 EDT 2002 Target=com.ibm.ive.mlrf.p3ml_4.99.20020816.5 Action=Feature installed Status=Success Date=Thu Aug 22 19:34:16 EDT 2002 Target=com.ibm.ive.mlrf.p3ml_4.99.20020816.5 Action=Enabled Status=Success
I still see the problem of JDT, PDE and Platform welcome pages showing up when I install the first new feature. Steps to reproduce: -take a fresh 2.0.1 build (20020821) -start with a new workspace -close the Platform welcome page -restart Eclipse -install the Alphabet Soup feature (I used version 2.0.0) -when prompted to restart select yes -I now have six welcome pages, three for alphabet soup features and three for Eclipse JDT/PDE/Platform
It works fine (no extra welcome pages) when I don't start Eclipse with the -dev bin argument.
Yes that will do it. The -dev bin command line option causes the update component to report no features (you can verify this in the about dialog). See bug 18820 Interestingly, after you perform the update the features are reported.
Specifying -update in addition to -dev bin as suggested in bug 21638 works as well. Annotated bug 18820. Marking this one as verified since welcome pages are displayed properly when not in dev mode.
