403047 – ETFw dropdown in run configuration/performance analysis tab confusing (ref bug 397684)

Some Eclipse Foundation services are deprecated, or will be soon. Please ensure you've read this important communication.

Bug 403047 - ETFw dropdown in run configuration/performance analysis tab confusing (ref bug 397684)

Summary: ETFw dropdown in run configuration/performance analysis tab confusing (ref bu...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 402787

Alias:	None

Product:	PTP
Classification:	Tools
Component:	ETFw (show other bugs)
Version:	7.0
Hardware:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Project Inbox
QA Contact:

URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2013-03-12 10:37 EDT by David Wootton
Modified:	2013-03-12 11:56 EDT (History)
CC List:	0 users

See Also:

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.

Description David Wootton

2013-03-12 10:37:17 EDT

I'm looking at the performance tab of the run configuration from the perspective of a user of a tool we are implementing using this tab. I think the ETFW version dropdown on this tab confuses the user and should not be on this tab. The reason is that the user doesn't necessarily know what the selection should be and why he should select it. 

If he selects the wrong version, I suspect the run is going to fail and possibly without a good indication to the user why it failed. 

Can the dropdown be removed from this tab and the logic be implemented in some other manner? I initially thought this could be a preference setting, but that doesn't really work since different tools/run configurations may want to use different ETFw versions.

Is coding this in the plugin.xml as a parameter to one of the extension points for ETFw a reasonable alternative?

Comment 1 Greg Watson

2013-03-12 11:56:09 EDT

Closing as duplicate of 402787.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 402787 ***