[kepler-dev] [Bug 5193] .xml demos are not loadable

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5193

--- Comment #3 from Derik Barseghian <barseghian at nceas.ucsb.edu> 2010-09-29 11:42:05 PDT ---
I agree having to understand the different open options is an annoyance, but
this was a problem in 2.0 as well, it's just that users who primarily used kars
had the bad end of the stick in 2.0, and now it's reversed. 
As I've previously said, in 2.2 I think the open options should be combined
into one Open... menu that can handle kars, moml, and urls (and we should add
support for opening, through this new open menu, kars at a url).

Creating KAR versions of all the demos has significant ramifications for the
text and screenshots in our documentation, and shouldn't be a part of 2.1. The
group would have to agree to nuking the xml versions, so that we only have to
maintain one copy of a given workflow. We should improve how KARs work within
Kepler (there is currently no unambiguous way to tell which KAR you're inside)
before updating all the text and screenshots. Since these documentation changes
represent a significant amount of work, and we should avoid doing it twice.

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