Description Chris Goldthorpe 2010-03-05 16:24:28 EST

The filter dialog was introduced during 3.6M6 as a way for the user to turn on and off filters defined by an AbstractHelpScope. Having used this in practice we believe that this is not of high value to users and may be confusing to them. The main purpose of AbstractHelpScope and the org.eclipse.help.base.scope extension point is to allow a single infocenter to serve multiple products and for each different product a scope parameter would be added. For example /help?scope=sdk.

Step 1 is to add a preference to allow for hiding or showing (default = show) of the filter dialog while we verify that it is not needed. Step 2 is to remove the preference, the dialog and any resources it uses. Also apply the filter to the list of Tocs and Topics shown in the scope dialog.