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Bug 166748 - Cannot activate/deactivate plugins
Summary: Cannot activate/deactivate plugins
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 165841
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Plugin Manager (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: PC Linux
: P1 blocker (vote)
Assignee: dlipin
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-06-09 02:04 UTC by fordfrog
Modified: 2009-06-09 11:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Issue Type: DEFECT
Exception Reporter:


Attachments
This would be my patch (4.29 KB, patch)
2009-06-09 09:44 UTC, Jaroslav Tulach
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Description fordfrog 2009-06-09 02:04:09 UTC
When netbeans installation files are not writeable by current user, it is not possible to activate/deactivate plugins
that are placed in netbeans installation. Plugins stored in userdir can be activated/deactivated without problems.

How to reproduce:
- install netbeans from installation script:
http://bits.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.7/community/rc2/bundles/netbeans-6.7rc2-ml-linux.sh
- run chown -R root:root netbeans (where "netbeans" is folder where netbeans is installed)
- run netbeans, go to tools -> plugins -> installed ... all plugins are grayed/disabled, so you cannot
activate/deactivate them

Expected behavior:
it should be possible to activate/deactivate plugins that are not owned/writeable by the current user
Comment 1 Jaroslav Tulach 2009-06-09 09:09:28 UTC
I have reproduced the problem. Very likely it is something in autoupdate/ui and not related to ergonomics. If I start 
the IDE without ergonomics cluster, I cannot manipulate items in Installed tab either.
Comment 2 Jaroslav Tulach 2009-06-09 09:15:31 UTC
Dear fordfrog, please note that while the plugin manager operations are disabled, the "ergonomics" activation works 
without problems - you can still create new java project and the java support will be activated.
Comment 3 Jaroslav Tulach 2009-06-09 09:44:12 UTC
Created attachment 83344 [details]
This would be my patch
Comment 4 Marian Mirilovic 2009-06-09 09:52:16 UTC
this is stopper for NB 6.7
Comment 5 dlipin 2009-06-09 10:21:49 UTC

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 165841 ***
Comment 6 dlipin 2009-06-09 11:38:34 UTC
patch looks promising however it allows selecting e.g. "RCP Platform" which in fact can be neither deactivated nor 
uninstalled.