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Bug 364246

Summary: [patch] Plugin start configuration support in PDE feature editor
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Katya Stoycheva <katya.stoycheva>
Component: UIAssignee: PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: curtis.windatt.public, t-oberlies, tobias.hammerschmidt
Version: 4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Bug Depends on: 364247    
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Description Flags
Added auto start checkbox in Plugin section none

Description Katya Stoycheva CLA 2011-11-20 18:37:50 EST 
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Currently there is PDE UI for configuring plugin start flag only on product level. It would be useful to have such option on feature level as well.
Use cases:
When publishing a new feature, a provider may need to configure which of the containing plugins should be started;
When consuming a feature, the consumer may need to use different configuration than published by the provider;

Currently in order to do that one should use p2.inf which requires a certain level of knowledge how p2 metadata is presented. It would be helpful for the end user to have UI for that since it's a common operation when publishing a feature.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Feature editor (plugins section) seems to be an intuitive place for the new option
Comment 1 Katya Stoycheva CLA 2011-11-20 18:39:00 EST 
Created attachment 207280 [details]
Added auto start checkbox in Plugin section
Comment 2 Curtis Windatt CLA 2011-11-21 13:07:54 EST 
Moving the linked bug to a dependency as this change is only helpful if the publisher will do something with the information.
Comment 3 Curtis Windatt CLA 2012-02-28 15:00:50 EST 
It doesn't look like the p2 bug will be fixed for 3.8. With PDE resources being so limited I am removing the target milestone.