Bug 305963

Summary: [Preferences] Allow all preference pages to contribute keywords to the filtered PreferenceDialog
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Philipp Kursawe <phil.kursawe>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 3.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Philipp Kursawe CLA 2010-03-16 04:52:01 EDT 
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Currently the filtering for keywords is reserved for workbench contributed preference pages.
It would be nice if custom, programmatically provided preference pages could also provide keyword labels for filtering.
To achieve that an easy patch would be required. A new interface
IKeywordLabelProvider would have to be introduced and org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.PreferencePatternFilter would not check for instanceof WorkbenchPreferenceExtensionNode anymore but for IKeywordLabelProvider. WorkbenchPreferenceExtensionNode would implement IKeywordLabelProvider.

interface IKeywordLabelProvider {
  Collection getKeywordLabels();
}

This way the very useful feature of keywords could also be used in custom preference pages provided during runtime and not via extension.

Usecase:
I am currently implementing a preference dialog for OSGI ConfigAdmin configuration management.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 15:36:42 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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.