Bug 322352 - Feature selection dialog should list features containing plugins matched by the filter
Summary: Feature selection dialog should list features containing plugins matched by t...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: PDE
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.4   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.4 M2   Edit
Assignee: Curtis Windatt CLA
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Keywords: contributed, noteworthy
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Blocks: 415222
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Reported: 2010-08-11 09:36 EDT by Lars Vogel CLA
Modified: 2013-09-18 13:13 EDT (History)
9 users (show)

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krzysztof.daniel: indigo-
curtis.windatt.public: review+

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Description Lars Vogel CLA 2010-08-11 09:36:28 EDT 
I frequently have to find for a plugin the feature to which it belongs. I would be great if the "Plug-ins" tab could have a button feature which would find the features to which this plugin belongs.
Comment 1 Ian Bull CLA 2010-08-12 16:37:30 EDT 
This would be a good feature. Seems like a good candidate for bugday.
Comment 2 Krzysztof Daniel CLA 2013-08-09 03:37:58 EDT 
Lars,
what is the use case?

I'm asking because it may be more desired to extend/change Plug-in Dependencies view, because I'd think that one is more concerned about plugins/features that are in a target platform than those actually installed.
Comment 3 Lars Vogel CLA 2013-08-09 04:38:52 EDT 
Thanks for the clarification, I agree this request is about finding the feature for a plug-in from the target platform. In RCP development you frequently need to find the feature which contains a plug-in if you have a product configuration file based on features.
Comment 4 Krzysztof Daniel CLA 2013-08-09 04:55:37 EDT 
(In reply to comment #3)
> In RCP development you
> frequently need to find the feature which contains a plug-in if you have a
> product configuration file based on features.

That's what I thought :).
So, what about extending the 'Feature Selection' dialog to offer you a feature if you type plugin id ? Sounds good?
Comment 5 Lars Vogel CLA 2013-08-09 05:00:50 EDT 
> So, what about extending the 'Feature Selection' dialog to offer you a
> feature if you type plugin id ? Sounds good?

Sounds super cool. :-)
Comment 6 Krzysztof Daniel CLA 2013-08-09 09:01:13 EDT 
Patch   https://git.eclipse.org/r/15285
Comment 7 Curtis Windatt CLA 2013-08-12 16:39:53 EDT 
http://git.eclipse.org/c/pde/eclipse.pde.ui.git/commit/?id=7c94729ac1e9053b9e0d752659380c06c44de009

Krzysztof's latest patch has been approved.  Thanks!

I will make an additional commit to surround the ids with single quotes.
Comment 8 Dani Megert CLA 2013-08-16 08:28:12 EDT 
The feature is nice but hard to discover. I filed bug 415222 to fix this.