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Bug 311239 - some items are grayed out
Summary: some items are grayed out
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: MPC
Classification: Technology
Component: Install (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 1.0.0   Edit
Assignee: David Green CLA
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: 311398 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-04-30 16:22 EDT by Steffen Pingel CLA
Modified: 2010-05-28 12:03 EDT (History)
3 users (show)

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screenshot (155.89 KB, image/png)
2010-04-30 16:23 EDT, Steffen Pingel CLA 		no flags Details
mylyn/context/zip (5.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2010-04-30 22:10 EDT, David Green CLA 		no flags Details
screenshot showing disabled buttons (203.71 KB, image/png)
2010-04-30 22:11 EDT, David Green CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Steffen Pingel CLA 2010-04-30 16:22:54 EDT 
Some items are displayed in a gray font but there is no indication as to why (verification failed?). See screenshot for an example.
Comment 1 Steffen Pingel CLA 2010-04-30 16:23:28 EDT 
Created attachment 166678 [details]
screenshot
Comment 2 David Green CLA 2010-04-30 22:10:15 EDT 
Good point: these items are no longer grayed out however items that cannot be installed have the 'Install' button disabled.  That should be a little more intuitive.  What do you think?
Comment 3 David Green CLA 2010-04-30 22:10:18 EDT 
Created attachment 166708 [details]
mylyn/context/zip
Comment 4 David Green CLA 2010-04-30 22:11:01 EDT 
Created attachment 166709 [details]
screenshot showing disabled buttons
Comment 5 Steffen Pingel CLA 2010-05-01 03:28:32 EDT 
Is there any indication as to why the install button is disabled? It would be nice if we could display a warning image next to the button in that case.
Comment 6 David Green CLA 2010-05-03 17:19:00 EDT 
*** Bug 311398 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 David Green CLA 2010-05-10 20:33:53 EDT 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Is there any indication as to why the install button is disabled? It would be
> nice if we could display a warning image next to the button in that case.

What would the warning icon do?  Provide tooltip text, or click to popup an error message?  Perhaps it would be better to just render a 'learn more' link instead?
Comment 8 Steffen Pingel CLA 2010-05-11 03:17:52 EDT 
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Is there any indication as to why the install button is disabled? It would be
> > nice if we could display a warning image next to the button in that case.
> 
> What would the warning icon do?  Provide tooltip text, or click to popup an
> error message?  

A tooltip makes sense to me. That would be similar to the behavior error annotations in Eclipse.

> Perhaps it would be better to just render a 'learn more' link
> instead?

I think that would be confusing since learn more links to a browser page in other cases.
Comment 9 Sven Efftinge CLA 2010-05-24 00:10:59 EDT 
The Xtext download is also shown with an inactive 'install' button. Without any error message I don't know what's wrong and am not able to fix it. When clicking the install button on the web site everything works as expected. Any ideas?
Comment 10 David Green CLA 2010-05-26 11:51:01 EDT 
Sven, the button is disabled for Xtext due to bug 313004 (composite p2 repository), which has been fixed in the latest MPC.  I've just tried it and the install button for Xtext is now enabled.  Please let me know if you continue to experience problems.
Comment 11 David Green CLA 2010-05-28 12:03:37 EDT 
Buttons should no longer be grayed out.