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Bug 356008

Summary:	Orion Plugins associated with users
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Pradyut Sarma <pradyutksarma>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.client-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	simon_kaegi, Szymon.Brandys
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Description Pradyut Sarma

2011-08-27 16:10:10 EDT

Build Identifier: 0.3

Hi,

This is just a query for the Orion team and NOT A BUG.

I have a local Orion installation shared amongst a couple of developers. The question is, will a plugin installed on the Orion installation by one user be visible across all users logged into that installation.

For example, User S1 has installed plugin P1. Should user U2 be also able to access the features of that plugin? It actually does with the latest release, probably that's how it is supposed to behave.

But isn't that a problem when my development environment is cluttered by plugins installed by other developers. There should be some way by which I should be able to construct my view...something similar to desktop eclipse where I install what I want.

Any comments?

Thanks and Regards,
Pradyut.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 John Arthorne

2011-08-29 11:09:34 EDT

No, a plugin installed by one user is not accessible by other users. This might depend on what you mean by "install" though. If you installed a plugin from the client using the "Plugins" page, then this information is only stored in your private user settings and nobody else will see it. It is also possible to install a plugin as a "default" on the server so all users get it. This can't be done via the client, but an Orion server administrator could do it (org.eclipse.orion.client.core/web/defaults.pref).

Comment 2 Pradyut Sarma

2011-08-30 01:47:02 EDT

Well John, If that is the case, then I guess we have a bug here ;)

Just to describe what I did here, I created two users U1 and U2 and installed a plugin (you could also test with the Reverse Text plugin from Mac here http://mamacdon.github.com/0.2/plugins/reverse/reversePlugin.html) from U1. I did not use the Orion server administrator to do anything but used the normal client installation via the Plugins link in the homepage. Unfortunately, the plugin appears for user U2 as well and I have the feature for U2 enabled as well.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Pradyut.

Comment 3 John Arthorne

2011-08-30 09:39:24 EDT

Ah, right. Two users in the same browser have the same settings. This is a known bug/limitation. Two users on different machines or different browsers will not have this effect.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 340964 ***