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On the main page of the plug-in portal, which as of today is http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/ RFE 1 The UI device to switch from a tag cloud to a alphabetically sorted list, which displays the number of items in a category, is located at the bottom of the page, which page is long enough now to scroll. I, a first time user, missed the device completely. If it was at the top and had a label, even one that said "change views" or better "view as list" "view as tag cloud" , people would be less likely to miss it. RFE 2 Currently it's not possible to determine if a plug-in is commercial or not except by navigating to each plug-ins individual, full description page. This is burdensome. As the number of plugins grows, the situation will get worse. But that information is useful to people who only want free plugins or to people who want commercially supported plugins or even to marketers who are trying to determine market opportunities. Filtering by license may provide limited value since the majority of open licenses may be GPL2 + classpath or it's equivalent, but it would be good if users at had the option of filtering by commercial or not. Thank you for reading this.
Thanks for the feedback! RFE 1 Good input! Look for this on the next version due out soon. RFE 2 This is a valid requirement. The implementation might be difficult given the license field is a String. I'll research ways to at least limit the search text to a particular field like "license".
RFE 1 - implemented.
RFE #1 is still valid. There is no easy way to filter out free plugins from the commercial ones.
Question: how do we find that plugin is commercial? Based on price>0 or on the license type? For example License type is freetext field in the plugin form, so it would be uneasy to tell by that. honza
I am afraid that this would require adding a brand new plugin property. Other opinions anyone?
I agree that this requires new property. It came to my mind as well. Implementing this is not big deal. I only wonder of how to set that for existing plugins. Maybe based on the price? I mean if price>0 set it as commercial.