[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-6368) Should nest categories in update site
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Nick Boldt commented on JBIDE-6368:
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You could provide the categories as installable chunks:
App Development
Data Services
Test & Performance
Maven
Cloud
SOA
Web
Reporting
Then, each can be clearly articulated w/ an icon & description.
We can also expose the features which provide their own branding icon already (Teiid,
Hibernate, Seam, etc.) and have those as installable chunks too. (My assumption being that
if they have unique branding they had a user community already before being collected into
JBT, and therefore some people may only want to install that piece of functionality,
without getting a bunch of other stuff along for the ride.)
The point is simply to provide a *prettier* UI which simplifies the experience / reduces
the # of clicks / categorizes user stories into useful (and reasonably fine- or
coarse-grained buckets).
Should nest categories in update site
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Key: JBIDE-6368
URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-6368
Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
Issue Type: Task
Components: updatesite
Affects Versions: 3.2.x
Reporter: John Verhaeg
Assignee: Max Rydahl Andersen
Priority: Blocker
Fix For: LATER
Attachments: nested-categories-p2-update-site.png
As discussed somewhat in JBIDE-4859, it seems like we should nest our categories in our
update site. So, instead of having lots of sibling categories for the various tools in
JBT alongside a sibling "All JBoss Tools" category, the latter should be
promoted to a parent category for the others (dropping the "All" prefix). For
example:
- JBoss Tools
- SOA Development
- JBoss ESB Tools
- Drools Core
...
- Data Services
- Hibernate
- ModeShape
- Smooks
- Teiid Data Tools Connectivity
- Teiid Designer Design-Time
- Teiid Designer Runtime
BTW, IMO having features in multiple categories blows. I don't like seeing this with
other Eclipse projects either. Just my 2 cents.
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