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Continuous build from June 7, 2007, Mac OS X. 1. Open the Plugins dialog, go to New Plugins tab 2. Type 'blueprints' in the Search field => nothing is found 3. Go to Settings tab, check 'Show details of all plugins' 4. Go back to New Plugins tab => now one module is found The two cases should behave consistently, the display view should not make any difference to the functionality
P2: regression people just cannot discover new plugins like EJS editor, or worse GlassFish V3. V3 is a very important new runtime we want people to try and give early feedback. This is a huge regression from previous UI where plugin are discoverable. Now they are just not discoverable. Please, fix this for M10 or I need to find other strageties to expose these plugins..
The thing is that in the default view (the view on features aka plugins) a module may be hidden inside a bigger feature (not the case with Glassfish v3 now, BTW). The search filter works over a certain properties of the visible items, like the name or the description. A way to fix this problem would be for example to list the descriptions of the individual modules within the description of the big feature. This would make the description text of the feature much longer than it is now, but if the description text is well structured, it could work for the users nicely. They would then be able to search for even the smallest parts of a big feature using the Search filter and identify the big feature they need to install to get the smaller part they are interested in.
After fixing #106799 is not so severe problem because descriptions in default view (features) contain also display names of modules that form it, so you can search for them: P3 now, I think
P3
After integrating issue 110566 this problem was fixed. Modules itself can control its visible state in Plugin Manager (attribute AutoUpdate-Show-In-Client: false or true in manifest.mf).