Re: Profile characteristics - viewing and editing settings

Ann Sunhachawee wrote:

> I was exploring the prototype and proj infr. ui spec and found that 
> the information given in the "New Profile" dialog when you try to 
> create a new Run Profile from the "Edit Run Profiles" dialog only 
> seems to be reflected there, and not shown anywhere else for either 
> viewing or editing purposes. (This dialog has the Profile Name, 
> Profile Type, Make Profile Public and Set as Active Profile) The UI 
> spec mentions explictly that a type cannot be changed once 
> established, but it would probably be good just to be able to see what 
> type was chosen. Also, I don't see a reason why a user could not 
> change the property "Make Profile Public (Can Be Chacekd in to VCS)" 
> after the profile is created.

It's not possible to move settings between shared and private layers, 
this is the technical limitation.

>
> Is there or will there be UI to at least view the settings for each 
> profile? 

Well, there perhaps should be some. The 'Set as Active Profile' setting 
is already visualized, profile's name as well, so we need to show 
somehow the type and the shared/private flag. Each profile type should 
have unique icon, IMO we could use profile type's icon for all profile 
instances of that type. It would be same as for e.g. Compilers or 
Executors in Netbeans 3.5. The shared/private flag could be indicated as 
a string appended to the profile's name, e.g. 'Hello World [shared]'.

-vita