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Bug 216031

Summary: [ui] Revert wizard should become a history view
Product: [Eclipse Project] Equinox Reporter: Susan McCourt <susan>
Component: p2Assignee: Susan McCourt <susan>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: gabriele.garuglieri
Version: 3.4   
Target Milestone: 3.5 M5   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Susan McCourt CLA 2008-01-21 14:20:21 EST 
It's odd to have a "revert configuration" button available that doesn't really act on anything selected in the installed features page.

Consider instead making a "history" tab available in the main update dialog, so that three things are shown:
- Installed
- Available
- History

This page would look like the current revert wizard, except
- need to sort the snapshots (this is a bug independent of a new presentation)
- have a "revert" button instead of "finish"
Comment 1 Susan McCourt CLA 2008-01-21 14:21:32 EST 
The history page should be structured as a viewer as planned for the available and installed viewers, so clients can show this view preconfigured.  This could be important in a future iteration of a recovery UI.
Comment 2 Susan McCourt CLA 2008-04-17 00:58:03 EDT 
removing 3.4 milestone.
Nice idea, but won't make feature freeze.
Comment 3 Susan McCourt CLA 2008-09-10 11:58:56 EDT 
See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_UI_3.5_workflows#About
for mockups showing how a history view might integrate with the about dialog.
Comment 4 Susan McCourt CLA 2008-09-17 14:29:52 EDT 
Looking into contributing this as a page in the extensible about dialog.
marking M4.
Comment 5 Susan McCourt CLA 2008-11-25 16:58:52 EST 
consider for M5 and at a mimimum we need to stop the "blocking" nature of the Revert button.
Comment 6 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-01-07 19:00:20 EST 
Fixed in HEAD >20090107.

The "Revert..." button is now removed from the "Installed Software Page."
Instead, we have an "Installation History" page that appears in the Installation Information dialog.  (Note this dialog will eventually be launched by Help>About).

From the history page, the user can select a config and press "Revert"