Bug 459989 - [QuickAccess] Search in help
Summary: [QuickAccess] Search in help
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.5   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.7 M2   Edit
Assignee: Patrik Suzzi CLA
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Keywords: noteworthy
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Reported: 2015-02-16 05:40 EST by Max Rydahl Andersen CLA
Modified: 2016-08-31 13:21 EDT (History)
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anim gif: proposed solution (2.47 MB, image/gif)
2016-08-13 20:40 EDT, Patrik Suzzi CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Max Rydahl Andersen CLA 2015-02-16 05:40:00 EST 
The quickaccess field is great and is starting to be used more and more by our users to find out what Eclipse can do.

One thing I recently realized is that very few knows about eclipse help search feature.

Today you have to take up a full view to search in help, I was wondering if we shouldn't hook in Help search to quick access.

Simply make it an option to choose.

Today I type "what is Dali" I will get "No matches".

How about in the "No matches" case we provide direct link to search in help ?

Possibly in future have a "Help" section like there are for commands etc. to look up in topics ?
Comment 1 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-08-13 20:40:56 EDT 
Created attachment 263580 [details]
anim gif: proposed solution

That is an interesting idea. Please, see the anim gif with an example of the proposed solution "in action".
Comment 2 Eclipse Genie CLA 2016-08-13 20:48:29 EDT 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/79016
Comment 3 Lars Vogel CLA 2016-08-30 04:32:26 EDT 
(In reply to Eclipse Genie from comment #2)
> New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/79016

Any update on this Patrik? Would be nice to have this for M2.
Comment 4 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-08-31 06:22:35 EDT 
As you suggested, now the search is always available. 
Please see a preview here: http://i.imgur.com/INyld9d.gif

The mechanism of adding extra entries is extensible. 
So, in future, we might think to add other search options.
Comment 5 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-08-31 06:31:22 EDT 
By The Way, it works also with the standalone dialog, and thanks to the tooltip-color fix, it looks great!

please see: http://imgur.com/5FYeBio.gif
Comment 6 Eclipse Genie CLA 2016-08-31 09:56:24 EDT 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/80134