392062 - Hide the plugin manager options in the UI that wont be used

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007081304 Minefield/3.0a8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007081304 Minefield/3.0a8pre

There are a few options in the new plugin manager UI that dont seem to have plans for getting activated.   They are currently grayed out, but this could confuse the user thinking there is a way to implement them.   Better solution is to hide them for now.

List of known options that UI wont be using right now:
- Find Updates

Right click menu: 
- Visit Home Page
- About <plugin listed>
- Uninstall
- Find Updates



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install latest trunk
2. have a few plugins installed
3. Tools > Addons > Plugins tab
4. See the options listed above on each plugin.
Actual Results:  
Grayed out options that arent going to be implemented anytime soon.  should hide them in the UI from the user

Expected Results:  
Hide the unavailable options from the user in the UI until its ready to be implemented.

Comment 1

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

They do make sense for EM managed plugins so we have to support them. Resolving -> wontfix

Comment 2

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Just so you know, we might remove the EM managed plugin type entirely and just require them to be install as an extension. If we decide to do this it would allow us to do something along the lines of this bug and I'll file a new bug for that after we've had a chance to discuss this.