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Summary: | Check For Updates Location Unclear | ||
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Product: | platform | Reporter: | redfloyd <redfloyd> |
Component: | Plugin Manager | Assignee: | Jiri Rechtacek <jrechtacek> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | blocker | Keywords: | UI |
Priority: | P3 | ||
Version: | 6.x | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: |
Description
redfloyd
2008-03-04 18:53:04 UTC
Thank you for your report redfloyd. Reassigning to autoupdate/plugin manager for evaluation. Thanks for feedback but UI team of NetBeans got several complaints of confusing Update Center Wizard in NB5.x Moreover, the fundamental of Autoupdate was changed for NB6.0 from single modules to plugins which can represent wider logical units, UI team wanted to express it in changed menu item. Ad updates: each of available updates of IDE has notification in the status line by 'globe' icon with bubble tooltip. I hope that is transparent enough and you don't need to invoke Plugin dialog to check of updates. I have thought deeply about your feedback I think would be worth to allow users to check of updates in another way. What if I add new one menu item Check for update in Help menu? If a user invoke that action and opens Update Wizard. Wizard reload content of Update Centers and find out possible updates. If any then the wizard download&install them. That would be fine with me; it's also consistent with the way many apps have their updates configured in the UI. |