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Bug 37678

Summary:	[plan item] Simplify update manager UI
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jim des Rivieres <jeem>
Component:	Update (deprecated - use Eclipse>Equinox>p2)	Assignee:	Dorian Birsan <birsan>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	amanji, danjou, jasper.chui.rh, justink, manahan
Version:	2.1	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	3.0 M3
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Jim des Rivieres

2003-05-15 10:57:59 EDT

Simplify update manager UI. User feedback indicates that the update manager UI 
is too powerful and occasionally confusing to users. It should be simplified 
in order to provide a clear path for the common tasks, embrace progressively 
disclosure, separate update search from platform configuration tasks, and make 
more economical use of screen real estate for properties. [Platform Update] 
[Theme: User experience]

Comment 1 Dejan Glozic

2003-06-21 12:37:14 EDT

Since M1, a newly redesigned UI is available in 3.0 builds. Check the 
description of the changes in:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-update-
home/doc/working/ui-redesign/ui-redesign.html

Comment 2 Justin Kilimnik

2003-07-20 21:28:57 EDT

I don't know if this is the correct area to raise this but one issue I would 
like to bring forward is about update.ui.forms a.k.a. Manifest Editors. The 
point I have is why is this in the update.ui package? Shouldn't it be moved 
into a eclipse.ui.forms package? 

For example the PDE uses eclipse.update.ui.forms, this doesn't seem right!

Also, I needed to patch this stuff a bit to make it work out side of a fully 
initialised WorkBench (wrote my own AbstractForm class and moved the eclipse 
code onto that because Platform wasn't initialised to get alternate hoverover 
colors). So maybe that work should be done as part of this Bug?

I think this work should be done as part of the V3 project since it WILL BREAK 
other plugins.

If this is not a part of this bug then can you please tell me where to add 
this too.

Comment 3 Dorian Birsan

2003-08-25 20:19:28 EDT

We have done a number of UI enancement in 3.0 and we consider this plan item 
implemented. 
The update manager perspective has been replaced by an installation wizard and 
by a configuration management tool (modal dialog).

For comment #2: that is a completely different request and I will let Dejan 
answer it.