Bug 459989

Summary:

[QuickAccess] Search in help

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse>

Component:

Assignee:

Patrik Suzzi <psuzzi>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

Lars.Vogel, mistria, psuzzi

Version:

4.5

Keywords:

noteworthy

Target Milestone:

4.7 M2

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

See Also:

https://git.eclipse.org/r/79016
https://git.eclipse.org/r/80134
https://git.eclipse.org/c/www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news.git/commit/?id=5efde4e86b8518cdadc4444c2772a48881cdfd23
https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=282a855ba75fd86e09211b656c095e0cc81926b1

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
anim gif: proposed solution	none

Description Max Rydahl Andersen

2015-02-16 05:40:00 EST

The quickaccess field is great and is starting to be used more and more by our users to find out what Eclipse can do.

One thing I recently realized is that very few knows about eclipse help search feature.

Today you have to take up a full view to search in help, I was wondering if we shouldn't hook in Help search to quick access.

Simply make it an option to choose.

Today I type "what is Dali" I will get "No matches".

How about in the "No matches" case we provide direct link to search in help ?

Possibly in future have a "Help" section like there are for commands etc. to look up in topics ?

Comment 1 Patrik Suzzi

2016-08-13 20:40:56 EDT

Created attachment 263580 [details]
anim gif: proposed solution

That is an interesting idea. Please, see the anim gif with an example of the proposed solution "in action".

Comment 2 Eclipse Genie

2016-08-13 20:48:29 EDT

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/79016

Comment 3 Lars Vogel

2016-08-30 04:32:26 EDT

(In reply to Eclipse Genie from comment #2)
> New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/79016

Any update on this Patrik? Would be nice to have this for M2.

Comment 4 Patrik Suzzi

2016-08-31 06:22:35 EDT

As you suggested, now the search is always available. 
Please see a preview here: http://i.imgur.com/INyld9d.gif

The mechanism of adding extra entries is extensible. 
So, in future, we might think to add other search options.

Comment 5 Patrik Suzzi

2016-08-31 06:31:22 EDT

By The Way, it works also with the standalone dialog, and thanks to the tooltip-color fix, it looks great!

please see: http://imgur.com/5FYeBio.gif

Comment 6 Eclipse Genie

2016-08-31 09:56:24 EDT

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/80134

Comment 7 Eclipse Genie

2016-08-31 12:52:18 EDT

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/80134 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news.git/commit/?id=5efde4e86b8518cdadc4444c2772a48881cdfd23

Comment 8 Eclipse Genie

2016-08-31 13:21:33 EDT

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/79016 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=282a855ba75fd86e09211b656c095e0cc81926b1