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Bug 227220

Summary:	[ui] copy/paste support for installed software list
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Susan McCourt <susan>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	Susan McCourt <susan>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse, jeffmcaffer, leberre, pascal, susan
Version:	3.4
Target Milestone:	3.5 M6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	246875
Bug Blocks:

Description Susan McCourt

2008-04-15 16:22:50 EDT

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #227114 +++

Build ID: 3.4 I20080410-1022

Steps To Reproduce:
When filling a bug report, users need to provide detailed plugin/feature informations regarding their plugins.

It is currently not possible to cut-and-paste the plugin name of version in the update manager.

As a consequence, one needs to re-type that information when filling bug reports.

A nice enhancement would be to allow the user to cut-and-paste the selected information.

More information:
Note that the informations about plugins can also be found from the Eclipse about dialog box. But the information is much more detailed (too much I guess) than within the update manager.

Comment 1 Susan McCourt

2008-04-15 16:24:50 EDT

I misread this bug originally as asking for cut/paste functionality from the plugin details list.  I left the original bug in platform UI to discuss that request.

Turns out Daniel was really interested in cutting/pasting info from the "Installed Software" list in the p2 UI.  This is easily implemented, although some larger questions are:

- is this enough info to actually diagnose a problem?  Would we rather always have the user go to the config details in the about dialog?

- should we have links in the p2 UI to the information given in the about dialog or a fast path to copy the config details to the clipboard?

Comment 2 Daniel Le Berre

2008-04-15 16:32:36 EDT

The idea to be able to access the detailed features/plugins from the installed tab is excellent.

Comment 3 Jeff McAffer

2008-05-04 08:25:26 EDT

copy can cause arbitrary things to be put in the clipboard right?  So in theory we could put as much or little detail in the clipboard as needed.

Comment 4 Susan McCourt

2008-05-12 13:01:40 EDT

*** Bug 231572 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Susan McCourt

2008-12-04 13:46:40 EST

moving to M5 as I think we want to look at clipboard support in light of the integrated about dialog (bug 246875)

Comment 6 Susan McCourt

2008-12-09 14:38:54 EST

We also need a story for copy/paste from the wizards themselves.  I just went to open a bug about a proposed update that confused me, and I can't copy the version info into the bug.

Comment 7 Susan McCourt

2009-01-19 13:25:13 EST

moving to M6.  I want to wait until after about dialog integration is done.  Something will be done here.  I have some work in progress so that we can copy IU info from any wizard or view, but need to figure out the right way to hook in the copy handler support.

Comment 8 Susan McCourt

2009-02-19 16:53:32 EST

Fixed in HEAD >20090219.
All p2 wizards with IU lists now support copy, as well as the p2 about pages.