The absolute minimum here would be a tooltip on hover. It's not clear why dependencies, which are plugins after all, don't get a full "box" – would allow for a better progress indicator as well.

I might be biased because of this ticket and seeing it before but I thought you could tell they were dependencies. Would that list overwhelm new users, danielbeck? That would create quite a few boxes.

Although, the Mailer Plugin does have it's own box and when you view it on the Plugin Manager page it is shown as a dependency of several other plugins. This seems inconsistent.

Well, they do get installed, and even shown on the side panel. If it were explicit about "Installing Foo plugin which is a dependency of Bar plugin, Baz plugin" that should be fine I think. We're showing dependencies on the selection list anyway.

Although, the Mailer Plugin does have it's own box and when you view it on the Plugin Manager page it is shown as a dependency of several other plugins. This seems inconsistent.

Not sure what you mean. A plugin can be both available for selection on the list at the beginning, and also be a dependency. What the list currently does not do is indicate which plugins in the list already get automatically installed because they're dependencies of another plugin that is checked – another minor RFE?

I would rather not show the dependencies in the new dialog: the dialog is especially for new users, they might get confused if there are now a lot of additional things that are going to be installed. (It's ok in the old dialog).

I also would recommend to remove the dependencies tooltip in the selection dialog (or use an explicit action to show the dependencies).

I agree — I certainly found the dependency tooltop to be unnecessary.

FWIW dependency presentation is going to be changed a bit in a PR (https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/2009).

I think alpha 3 changes the presentation of these dependencies a bit. Is it better now?

The **'s during install are still there. See attachment for what I am describing.

slide_o_mix (Somewhat unrelated) Are there no boxes in the grey area to the left of it at all? There should be one box per plugin you selected to be installed…

There is NOTHING in the gray area to the left as is shown in the screenshot.

kzantow I imagine it wouldn't be particularly difficult to add a message below the progress bar that explains that selected plugins and their dependencies are being installed, with a minor change to presentation in the list. WDYT?

Expectation: Describe what the indicator ** means. It should be clear what are dependencies of the user's selection.

Planned approach to resolution:

• Text description in console or somewhere around the console

Not in scope:

• Displaying the plugins that caused the install

danielbeck I've added a sort of footnote section to the console log, please check the screenshot and PR https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/2159 to determine if this is sufficient. I believe the text should be around the console log (rather than elsewhere), as that's where the indicator is actually being used.

Code changed in jenkins
User: kzantow
Path:
core/src/main/resources/jenkins/install/pluginSetupWizard.properties
war/src/main/js/pluginSetupWizardGui.js
war/src/main/js/templates/progressPanel.hbs
war/src/main/less/pluginSetupWizard.less
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/jenkins/9fbd7aa5170745f0e724031c4736d8da7a57b55e
Log:
JENKINS-33246 - add a footnote about required dependencies installing
during setup wizard

Code changed in jenkins
User: Daniel Beck
Path:
core/src/main/resources/jenkins/install/pluginSetupWizard.properties
war/src/main/js/pluginSetupWizardGui.js
war/src/main/js/templates/progressPanel.hbs
war/src/main/less/pluginSetupWizard.less
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/jenkins/547f304b0b26a3627fe04d023cdad1a63475e5ed
Log:
Merge pull request #2159 from kzantow/JENKINS-33246-show-install-dependency-legend

[FIX JENKINS-33246] Add a footnote about ** in setup wizard

Compare: https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/compare/5a9ac399d2f1...547f304b0b26