Bug 364246 - [patch] Plugin start configuration support in PDE feature editor
Summary: [patch] Plugin start configuration support in PDE feature editor
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: PDE
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: PDE-UI-Inbox CLA
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Depends on: 364247
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Reported: 2011-11-20 18:37 EST by Katya Stoycheva CLA
Modified: 2013-02-06 05:30 EST (History)
3 users (show)

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Added auto start checkbox in Plugin section (12.27 KB, patch)
2011-11-20 18:39 EST, Katya Stoycheva CLA
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Description Katya Stoycheva CLA 2011-11-20 18:37:50 EST
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Currently there is PDE UI for configuring plugin start flag only on product level. It would be useful to have such option on feature level as well.
Use cases:
When publishing a new feature, a provider may need to configure which of the containing plugins should be started;
When consuming a feature, the consumer may need to use different configuration than published by the provider;

Currently in order to do that one should use p2.inf which requires a certain level of knowledge how p2 metadata is presented. It would be helpful for the end user to have UI for that since it's a common operation when publishing a feature.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Feature editor (plugins section) seems to be an intuitive place for the new option
Comment 1 Katya Stoycheva CLA 2011-11-20 18:39:00 EST
Created attachment 207280 [details]
Added auto start checkbox in Plugin section
Comment 2 Curtis Windatt CLA 2011-11-21 13:07:54 EST
Moving the linked bug to a dependency as this change is only helpful if the publisher will do something with the information.
Comment 3 Curtis Windatt CLA 2012-02-28 15:00:50 EST
It doesn't look like the p2 bug will be fixed for 3.8. With PDE resources being so limited I am removing the target milestone.