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Equinox p2 UM workflows
This page captures user scenarios in the Eclipse Update Manager and discusses issues or problems that were to be solved by the next provisioning UI (Equinox p2 User Interface).
Contents
Scenarios
Check for updates
- Help >
- Software Updates >
- Find and Install...
- Search for updates of the currently installed features
- Finish
- select mirror
- OK
- expand site
- expand category
- Next
- I accept...
- Next
- Finish
What can I get?
Here's something cool on the web
What do I have?
Automatic Updating
What's wrong?
Repo management
Problems
- Artificial separation of searching ("what can I get") vs. managing ("what do I have") due to performance characteristics of update sites (long download times).
- High click count to find new content or add new content found on web
- Repo management part of basic workflows
- No way to find something by name
- Presentation of detail that user didn't understand (error messages referencing software user didn't know about)
- No ability to retarget UI (dialog vs. preference page) - "All or Nothing" implementation