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Re: [equinox-dev] New Update Manager UI : Your thoughts
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The need for license acceptance is typically
a requirement discretion of the plugin provider and not the consumer of
the plugins. So allowing the consumer to disable the license acceptance
should only be optional at the discretion of the plugin provider.
Peter
equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/13/2007
09:04:39 AM:
>
> The provisioning system should already know about the sites and
> should be able to discover more.
>
> Actually I missed in there where the users said which plugin they
wanted.
>
> User should not have to accept a license if the plugin is coming
> from a known/trusted site. Sites should be ranked in this way
>
> Restart may not be needed
>
> Jeff
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> "Prashant Deva" <prashant.deva@xxxxxxxxx>
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> 06/12/2007 08:26 PM
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> Re: [equinox-dev] New Update Manager UI : Your thoughts
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> Ok, here is some thoughts on the gui for installing a new plugin.
> This is in keeping with the philosophy of keeping the simple things
simple.
> I wish there were a place where I could upload some docs and sample
> images to make the point more clear, but i will just type some stufffor
now.
>
> 1. User clicks on 'Install new plugin'
button
> 2. Dialog box with single text field asks
to enter the url of
> pluign update site.
> 3. update manager automatically gets the
latest available
> version of the plugin.
> 4. asks the user to accept the license.
> 5. if license accepted, then installs plugin
and asks user torestart.
>
> The update site url, etc are automatically saved by the program and
> user doesnt need to give a 'name' along with the url as we have to
do now.
> Also no dialog box for confirming 'install all'. All user has to
> enter is the url and accept the license.
>
> the dialog in step 2 can have an 'advanced' button, which when
> selected allows user to choose the exact version to install.
>
> your thoughts? any compulsory steps in the install process we might
> be missing this way?
>
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