Input for better JBoss Tools update site layout

[maxandersen]

Hi,

I'm working on https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-4859 which is about provding a better update site layout than what we have today.

I didn't like our current updatesite because it doesn't show very well how big a feature set we actually we have and many might not realize they don't need to install *everything*.

On the other hand I would like there to be an "easy" option to install everything that should be able to work on Eclipse JEE bundle.

So I took a look at Eclipse Galileo updatesite and saw they got some pretty good names for most things and decided to use where it made sense and then also keep the JBoss Tools category (now renamed to "All JBoss Tools") which is everything except plugins that drags in big dependencies beyond Eclipse JEE.

I would love to hear if this updatesite categorization works for you and if not, what you would prefer instead ?

[maxandersen]

btw. the first category is not expanded in the screenshot since it would then not fit in one screen.

And please note that pi4soa and jbpm plugins are not shown here purely because of me being lazy - they are supposed to be shown inside both the All JBoss Tools and SOA Tools category.

[dgolovin]

[e-mail] wrote:

On the other hand I would like there to be an "easy" option to install everything that should be able to work on Eclipse JEE bundle.

I would propose to provide big feature to install everything like it is done for Eclipse for JEE Developers. The benefits are:

1. One checkbox to install everything

2. One item to remove everything if you need reinstallation.

Here is an example for Eclipse for JEE DEvelopers

[maxandersen]

Yes, I wanted to add that since beginning of time but there were some build issues around this afaik. If not the case anymore then yes, lets do it.

Having some better aggregated feature sets would work for me - as long as the updatesite can still provide individual feature/plugin downloads.