Bug 532005

Summary:	Allow PreferenceDialog and Quick Access to search for a specific preference
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, psuzzi
Version:	4.7	Keywords:	usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Depends on:	532002, 532004
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Description Mickael Istria

2018-03-05 04:46:43 EST

In order to ease navigation in preferences, the PreferenceDialog search box and Quick Access should provide a way to match an individual preference and to show the specific preference page to edit it.

Comment 1 Patrik Suzzi

2018-03-09 07:11:38 EST

If I understand correctly, an example would be typing "format all lines" on Quick Assist (or PreferenceDialog) to open "Java > Editor > Save Actions" preferences page. 

To do this, we should:
- get a list with all the preferences, and get the text displayed
- let the user filter on all the preferences by the text displayed 
- add this filtering option to the Preferences > Search
- add this filtering option to the QuickAccess Providers. 

Note: If we filter on preferences text, we should consider also cases where the preference text is repeated in different pages, like: "Completion overwrites" which is both in the page Java > Editor > Content Assist and in JavaScript > Editor > Content Assist.