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Bug 313629

Summary:	[ui] Reorganize the add update site dialog to put the URL first and mention the name is optional
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Frank <f.copperfield>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	john.arthorne, pascal
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Frank

2010-05-19 16:58:11 EDT

Build Identifier: 

The site.xml file already contains a useful description that can be used when adding an update site (see for example http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x/site.xml). I don't see why I should have to supply it. If a description is not found, then use the URL as a description by default -- I can always change it later should I choose to. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A

Comment 1 John Arthorne

2010-05-20 15:53:05 EDT

You don't have to supply a name/description anywhere. When you add a new site you have the option to supply a name that is meaningful to you. If you don't supply one, we will try to obtain the name from the repository itself, and failing that I believe we use the URL.

Comment 2 Frank

2010-05-20 16:23:00 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> You don't have to supply a name/description anywhere. When you add a new site
> you have the option to supply a name that is meaningful to you. If you don't
> supply one, we will try to obtain the name from the repository itself, and
> failing that I believe we use the URL.

You're right! What I think would be clearer is for the URL to be the first thing in the small dialog and for the word "optional" to be stated along with the name (or a star for the URL). You could then use an AJAX-like technique to populate the name on the fly :)

Comment 3 John Arthorne

2010-05-20 16:45:40 EDT

Possibly. The reason it works this way is that the repository name is embedded in the repository itself. To find out the name we potentially need to download several MB of data for a large repository case. We try to avoid loading a remote repository until needed.

Comment 4 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 02:21:04 EST

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