RE: [equinox-dev] [p2] UI priorities for M3

["Walter Harley" <wharley@xxxxxxx>]

Hi, Susan.  Somewhat related to the update issue, I think, is https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174515, which concerns how users are notified when plugins on their machine have failed to load.  I would really like to see some attention to this bug - partly because I'm responsible for some plugins that only load on 1.5 or even 1.6, but also because I spend time monitoring eclipse.newcomer and this seems to be an ongoing source of problems there.

 

Thanks,

  -Walter Harley

   JDT APT team

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From: equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Susan M Franklin
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:52 AM
To: equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [equinox-dev] [p2] UI priorities for M3

Hi, everyone.   
One of the goals for M3 is to try to define the 
conent/scope of our 3.4 deliverable.  So I'm trying to balance our desire 
to resolve unknowns with getting current workflows more polished.  I'm 
interested in the community's feedback on the current M3 UI plan, which 
currently includes 

- improving the 
install/uninstall/update workflow by providing more info (size, time, invalid 
states, etc.) 
- polling for software 
updates and notifying the user 
- 
improved support for browsing repos (IU categories and filtering) 
- more info in admin artifact repo views 

(You can see the expanded detail at 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_User_Interface#Milestone_plan). 

This is a rather aggressive plan but still 
does not address some other big UI items, most notably 
- UI for rollback 
- presentation of licenses 

So 
if you have opinions on the pressing issues and priorities in the UI, please let 
me know via this list, or annotating bugs you care about, etc.... 

thanks, 
susan