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Bug 123916

Summary: Facet runtimes should be visible by default in project properties
Product: [WebTools] WTP Common Tools Reporter: Tim deBoer <deboer>
Component: wst.commonAssignee: Konstantin Komissarchik <konstantin>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 1.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Tim deBoer CLA 2006-01-15 21:32:29 EST 
The change to make the runtimes section of the facet wizard page hidden by default (and enabled via Show Runtimes button) makes sense in the new project wizard. However, when entering this wizard page via Properties > Project Facets this adds an extra step when changing the runtime and makes it less obvious for the user. This section should be visible by default when accessed from the project's properties.
Comment 1 Konstantin Komissarchik CLA 2006-02-21 19:10:40 EST 
I think the "default hidden" behavior makes sense even in the add/remove scenario. Most of the times the users will be going here to add/remove facets and not to change the runtimes.
Comment 2 Tim deBoer CLA 2006-02-22 11:27:56 EST 
I originally opened this bug because I had received several comments from WTP users:
  * One user couldn't figure out how to change the runtime setting. (You've got to go into the Project Facets and then choose Add/Remove Project Facets to change the runtime - not exactly obvious)
  * Another user figured it out but didn't like the usability enough that they emailed me.
  * Another user emailed this specific problem and wanted the runtimes shown by default to make it easier to use and more obvious what the user can do.
  * FWIW, in 0.7 it took 5 mouse-clicks to change the runtime. In 1.0 it now takes 8 clicks.

Maybe making the runtimes visible by default isn't the right approach, but given the feedback I've been seeing we still have a usability issue here. I beleive this is something that we still need to investigate.
Comment 3 Konstantin Komissarchik CLA 2006-04-19 20:43:03 EDT 
Marking this as a dupe of the work item for creating a dedicated project properties panel for configuring the targeted runtimes.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134580 ***
Comment 4 Tim deBoer CLA 2006-06-13 11:44:53 EDT 
Closing.