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Bug 88476

Summary: [Preferences] API needed to open pref pages on a keyword
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Mazen Faraj <mfaraj>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 Keywords: helpwanted
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Mazen Faraj CLA 2005-03-18 11:16:00 EST 
currently the preference page support allows for an api that show a list of 
filtered preferences pages. This list is constructed from the ids of the 
preference pages. 
It would be nice if instead of ids, the PreferenceUtil methods accepted a 
keyword instead. This way I dont have to painstakingly find out what the pref 
page ids are by looking at numerous plugin.xmls.

Alternatively, an api that returns a list of pref page ids given a keyword. 

(and on the same topic, how come the a Java preference page appears when you 
filter by the string "Appe". I could not find any Java pref page that was 
defined with an appearance keyword. )
Comment 1 Mazen Faraj CLA 2005-03-18 12:55:44 EST 
ps: maybe Im missing something here, but is the text filtering mechanism 
documented somewhere? Is this just a simple grep?
Comment 2 Mazen Faraj CLA 2005-03-21 10:18:29 EST 
Tod,
is the filtering just a text grep on the begining of each pref page name? is 
that what is it? any * substitution?
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2005-03-21 10:21:28 EST 
On the keyword and each word in the game. We don't prefix with * becuase of
false positives.
Comment 4 Tod Creasey CLA 2007-03-14 15:29:21 EDT 
There are currently no plans for the Platform team to implement this feature.
Comment 5 Denis Roy CLA 2009-08-30 02:20:33 EDT 
As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.