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Bug 343525

Summary:	tweak project selection dialog
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Igor Fedorenko <igor>
Component:	m2e	Assignee:	Project Inbox <m2e.core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	matthew, mkleint
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Igor Fedorenko

2011-04-21 09:22:50 EDT

Maven project selection dialog introduced as part of bug 342910 and now also used by update project configuration action needs another pass to improve polish and usability. This is not a definitive list, but here are some ideas

* show only selected projects by default, but have a way to uncover (and hide again) unselected projects. Currently all projects are always shown, which makes it hard to see selected projects when running update on a small number of projects from a large workspace.

* filter projects by name, groupId or artifactId. again, finding project that you need can be hard in a large workspace.

* action to select/deselect all module (or nested?) project of a given parent.

* pass dialog title as constructor parameter, so update dependencies and update configuration actions can show the same dialog with different title

Comment 1 Igor Fedorenko

2011-04-21 12:08:26 EDT

* Actions to expand/collapse all and individual project tree nodes would also be nice.

Comment 2 Matthew Piggott

2011-04-21 15:23:09 EDT

I have made a few of these changes but accidentally used the wrong bug in the commit message: http://git.eclipse.org/c/m2e/m2e-core.git/commit/?id=4ab6896523ca6c2a6a8bc8563101fd1a023a991b

I haven't done any filtering so far, I don't believe there are any JFace filtered trees with checkboxes so we'd need to write something custom.

Comment 3 Milos Kleint

2011-04-26 02:45:29 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> Maven project selection dialog introduced as part of bug 342910 and now also
> used by update project configuration action needs another pass to improve
> polish and usability. This is not a definitive list, but here are some ideas
> 
> * show only selected projects by default, but have a way to uncover (and hide
> again) unselected projects. Currently all projects are always shown, which
> makes it hard to see selected projects when running update on a small number of
> projects from a large workspace.

The current way is simpler and aligned with what "clean" and PDE-> Update ClassPath" dialogs look like. 

> 
> * filter projects by name, groupId or artifactId. again, finding project that
> you need can be hard in a large workspace.

Both this and the previous item seem to indicate that you have done a selection (before opening the dialog) but want to update it inside in a complex manner. Why? Is it that common? I haven't really noticed anything like that on my side when using the clean/update CP actions in the last year. Is the maven thing different? in what way?

> 
> * action to select/deselect all module (or nested?) project of a given parent.

The list appears flat to me (in my workspace). Again that aligns with the way other project lists work. When/why would I want to work with modules?

> 
> * pass dialog title as constructor parameter, so update dependencies and update
> configuration actions can show the same dialog with different title

Comment 4 Milos Kleint

2011-04-26 04:06:55 EDT

>> 
>> * action to select/deselect all module (or nested?) project of a given parent.
>
>The list appears flat to me (in my workspace). Again that aligns with the way
>other project lists work. When/why would I want to work with modules?

I stand corrected, the latest build has indeed hierarchy of projects/modules.

Comment 5 Igor Fedorenko

2012-05-21 11:21:42 EDT

Closing old/stale bugreports.

Comment 6 Denis Roy

2021-04-19 13:25:11 EDT

Moved to https://github.com/eclipse-m2e/m2e-core/issues/