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Bug
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Resolution: Fixed
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Major
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jenkins-2.0-alpha
When the plugin installed wizard is installing plugins, it shows a plugin in black and then it can have other plugins with ** in front that are grey. It is unclear that these grey plugins are the dependencies. There is also a lot of wasted whitespace area during this time as well. The whole area to the left of the installing list is just blank. More information could be provided in that space during install. Perhaps some tips on using Jenkins.
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[JENKINS-33246] It is unclear that the items with ** are dependencies during plugin install on 2.0
| Labels | Original: 2.0 | New: 2.0 2.0-feedback |
| Labels | Original: 2.0 2.0-feedback | New: 2.0 |
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).
Also, enjoy all the additional dependencies from JENKINS-33296. May be bad enough that we need to require fairly recent core dependencies for plugins in this dialog, otherwise they'd have giant dependency lists.
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.