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[ JDK VERSION : 1.7.0_67 ] STEPS: * Install Netbeans IDE * Install additional plugins ACTUAL: nothing happens EXPECTED: Indicate supplemental plugins, which do not belong to the standard installation. After a time, user forgets, which additional plugins he has installed. In case of installing a new version of NB, he may want to add the same plugins. Additionally there could be a similar paragraph in the Import Settings dialogue.
+1 for this. from an email to the NetCAT email list: Maybe it's just me, but one of the frustrating parts of testing new versions of NetBeans, including every time I test a new version of 8.1, is getting all the plug ins that I need installed. The "plugins from previous versions" dialog only catches a few of them. I generally take a screen shot of my list from the old version then manually compare to find what is missing and then install those. Does this happen to anyone else? Is there anyway this could be made less painful? Some that I use that were not automatically carried over: Ant 1.9.4 Documentation C/C++ CVS HTML5 Kit Java EE Base
I realize from the NetBeans point of view this is an enhancement, but from a user's perspective it is a lot more like a bug. Us users don't necessarily know or understand the difference between which plugins are included in the standard set, and are thus prompted for migration, and those that are not.
Reassigned for further evaluation.
(In reply to ulfzibis from comment #0) > Additionally there could be a similar paragraph in the Import Settings > dialogue. Thinking more about that, I see a problem: If the user added some plugins from administrator/root account in "shared directories" and then runs the "Import Settings dialogue" from user account, the import into "shared directories" can not happen. Ideally, the installer would save a list of user added/removed plugins in .nbi location. If a new version of the IDE becomes installed, the installer could display this list and ask the user, which of them should be installed again.