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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #218534 +++ The original bug was opened to discuss generic mechanisms for discovering sites. Along the way we discussed different UI's for showing these sites, and different concepts such as enabled/disabled sites or added/discovered sites. From bug #218534 comment #17 >In effect, we are still talking about the same UI issue. There are repos the >user added, and repos we know about through some other means, and the UI needs >to allow the user to include the ones we know about, either by adding them from >a "known repositories" list or by enabling/disabling repos. This bug represents the short-term need for this UI in order to represent old update manager associated sites and discovery sites.
fixed in HEAD >20080422. The "Manage Sites..." dialog now uses a checkbox. It shows all sites, whether enabled or disabled. You can enable and disable sites, as well as add new ones and remove. (You can also import/export bookmark files per bug #224999). This should make UM users a lot more comfortable, as it is similar to the sites page in the "Find and Install" wizard. Since we are only getting disabled sites from UM associate sites and discovery sites, using a similar metaphor seemed reasonable for 3.4. I did not want to surface the check boxes for enabled/disabled sites in the main "Available Software" page as I think this overloads the user. Note that we may rethink this again when we implement Bug #218534 if the list of discovered repos dwarfs the ones the user knew about.
