Bug 532002

Summary:	PreferencePage extension to allow giving a list of "referencedPreference"
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Mickael Istria <mistria>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, lbullen
Version:	4.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	532005

Description Mickael Istria

2018-03-05 04:38:39 EST

In order to make it easier to find a preference page to change a preference in the IDE, the preferencePage extension could allow some "referencedPreference" children declaring which performance it can set.
Then we could introduce an API such 
* PreferenceUtil.findPreferencePagesFor(preferenceId)
* PreferenceUtil.createPreferenceDialogFor(preferenceId, shell)

For preference pages which use the PreferenceFields, it would allow to log cases of a preference page bound to a preference but not declaring it.

On a longer run, if we implement keywords or label for preferences, it would also enable smarter search of preference: user would only type a keyword for a preference and we could show the pages which have a preference related to this keyword.
That would reduce the need for preferencePage keywords and provide a more generic solution that could also show up in quick assist for instance.