[jbosstools-dev] The list of uninstallable connectors at the top of Central catalog sucks

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

> Hi all,
>
> While I'm testing staged JBT 4.3.0.CR2a, I noticed that a user facing 
> Central will see a catalog with a list of items that they cannot 
> select, with no widget, nothing. Click "Select All" doesn't produce an 
> obvious feedback so user isn't aware of the impact of "Select All".
> It takes at least a few seconds to me, who developed most of the 
> support for those uninstallable entries in Central catalog, to think 
> about scrolling down to see usable content. I believe it's going to be 
> much worse for new users, or for those who don't look at software page 
> often.

can you please open jira with screenshot ?

There should only be *one* entry that is marked as "coming later" and 
thats Fuse.

/max

> Those entries hide some parts of JBoss Tools with real added-value 
> (Hybrid Tools, OpenShift v3...).
>
> Those useless uninstallable connectors are hiding the useful content, 
> and unless one already knows or is curious enough to find installable 
> connectors, it just make this install page seem useless. IMO, it's 
> worse to have this poor UX in our product than to have some occasional 
> questions on the user forums.
> My immediate recommendation would be:
> * Either to drop all those JBT-IS "not yet available" connector and 
> face user questions on forums, or
> * instead of a dozen of "not yet available" entries hiding the 
> installable one, we should have a single "JBoss Tools integration 
> Stack" entry telling that the content are not available yet.
>
> On a longer-term approach, there are now way too many things in 
> Central, either we should make it simpler, or fully revise it to have 
> a more structured browser, which will ultimately look either like 
> MarketPlace Client or the regular p2 install wizard with a tree (and 
> some additional columns and some icons since it's the only real 
> difference between central catalogs and a p2 site)
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Mickael Istria
> Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools>
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/max
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