Portlet Preferences Window

We are using Plumtree 5.0
I would like to make the pencil icon for portlet preferences take me directly to the preference page for that portlet rather than to the list of all the portlets for the current page. Does anybody know how to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Tommy Wright
FTN Financial

Why couldn't it be changed to make the OpenPortletPrefsWindow call when you click on the pencil icon. If there are no preferences then just return a page that says "There are no preferneces for this portlet".
When a portlet has preferences, could that not simply set a property/flag in the "PTGADGETS" that says it has one? The code already looks up the portlet's title, so why could it not lookup an extra field?
Why put the pencil icon on every portlet when they all do the same thing? They just take you to the list of portlet preferences where I have to scan the list to find the name of the very same portlet I just clicked on. Once the user finds the name in the list they then have to determine if it has preferences or not by seeing if the name is now a link or not. Even then, they have to click the link to actually edit the preferences. I feel this is a fundemental design flaw in the way portlets work in 5.0.
My only option in order to enable a more user friendly interface is to remove the pencil icon altogether and force them to use the edit protlet preferences from the menu. Even this does not give the feel that the portlets are independant of each other. Guys, I am really frustrated with this problem and disappointed in the response.

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