Bug 359320 - enhance Eclipse search capabilities to include desktop resources
Summary: enhance Eclipse search capabilities to include desktop resources
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 192767
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Search (show other bugs)
Version: 3.7   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Search-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-09-28 19:58 EDT by David Green CLA
Modified: 2011-10-03 06:52 EDT (History)
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Description David Green CLA 2011-09-28 19:58:32 EDT 
It's common to work with documents that aren't in the workspace. It would greatly enhance the platform experience if users could search for these documents using the standard Eclipse search functions (search menu, dialog, search view). 

Within the Mylyn Sandbox, platform search was enhanced to make it possible to search the desktop, finding files both within and outside of the workspace. Search makes use of search indexes provided by the OS, for example the Windows search APIs.

The enhancement was developed under this task:

349351: [search] enhance Eclipse search capabilities to include desktop resources
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=349351

A summary of the functionality provided by this enhancement including screenshots and a description of behaviour is available here:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=200466

Please consider including this functionality as part of platform search.
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2011-10-03 06:52:42 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 192767 ***