Description Albert Zeyer 2011-02-27 15:43:45 EST

I think this is a duplicate of bug #338332. I'm not sure I understand correctly why I had to open another bug report for this.

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I was clicking 'Help / Check for updates' and was expecting that Eclipse checks
for updates for itself. But it did not. It searched for updates for installed
plugins only.

I think this should be made more clear.

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I mean that "Check for updates" suggests that it checks for updates for
Eclipse.

But it does not. That is what I am saying with this bug report.

Today was the first time I was in #eclipse IRC and from the 3 questions or so
which appeared in the time I was there, one of it was exactly also about this
(the user asked why "Check for updates" didn't found the Eclipse update to
3.6.2).

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Or maybe "not intuitive" would be better.

How should I know that I have to add a repository to update Eclipse?

And how should I know which one?

And how should I know that there is an update?

So it all means that I have to manually check the website for major updates.
And the function "Check for updates" in Eclipse cannot do that.

And that is confusing.