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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
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.
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.
Created attachment 83344 [details] This would be my patch
this is stopper for NB 6.7
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 165841 ***
patch looks promising however it allows selecting e.g. "RCP Platform" which in fact can be neither deactivated nor uninstalled.