Bug 264084

Summary:	[About] Filter box in the plugin details page
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Robert Konigsberg <konigsberg>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	caniszczyk, elias, prakash
Version:	3.5	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Robert Konigsberg

2009-02-08 09:19:38 EST

Consider: select Help > About > Plug-in Details.

You're presented with a large list of plug-ins. Finding the plug-in in which you are interested can often be frustrating. I now realize what is missing: a search box.

I'd love to see a text box in those two dialog boxes that lets me filter the list of results (a la FilteredSelectionDialog).

Hope this is clear enough.

Comment 1 Chris Aniszczyk

2009-02-08 10:20:40 EST

Does Ctrl+Shift+A help you?

It's like Ctrl+Shift+T but for plug-in related artifacts.

Comment 2 Robert Konigsberg

2009-02-08 10:23:30 EST

It does not, because this is not a during-plug-in-development issue, this is an "I want to report a bug against pydev; what version is it?"-issue.

Comment 3 Prakash Rangaraj

2009-02-08 10:25:28 EST

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does Ctrl+Shift+A help you?

Chris,
   That won't work in the Java IDE. It would require the PDE to work

Comment 4 Susan McCourt

2009-02-11 12:55:48 EST

This is a good idea, no guarantees for 3.5, but I'm marking 3.5 for now to keep on the radar because we are doing other work in the about dialog (bug #246875), and that issue came up there, too.

Comment 5 Susan McCourt

2009-02-17 15:10:49 EST

Renaming to be more general...

Comment 6 Boris Bokowski

2009-05-06 16:50:36 EDT

Removing 3.5 target milestone. We are in the end-game now. Please have a look and decide if this should be targeted at 3.6.

Comment 7 Susan McCourt

2009-06-25 14:15:53 EDT

assigning milestone for investigation in 3.6

Comment 8 Susan McCourt

2009-11-24 21:44:21 EST

I think if we do anything for 3.6, it will be a filter for the specific page in question.  Making title more specific (again).  I'd like to see filters used for all install page lists, (or for that matter for any list shown in eclipse!) but the more general solutions aren't going to happen in 3.6, too many other things going on.

Comment 9 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:14:43 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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