Bug 490623 - [Wizards] Allow opening a {New | Import | Export} Wizard with particular categories
Summary: [Wizards] Allow opening a {New | Import | Export} Wizard with particular cate...
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.6   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Brian de Alwis CLA
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Reported: 2016-03-29 13:17 EDT by Brian de Alwis CLA
Modified: 2017-05-24 11:06 EDT (History)
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Description Brian de Alwis CLA 2016-03-29 13:17:58 EDT 
The New/Import/Export wizards can become a bit unwieldy once many plugins have been installed.  It can be useful to open one of these wizards showing only a subset of the available wizards, particularly from the Welcome page.

For example, the new EPP for JavaScript developers has 14 categories of wizard,  

The New wizard allows opening on a particular category (see org.eclipse.ui.internal.handlers.WizardHandler$New).  This category can only be configured programmatically.  The org.eclipse.ui.newWizard command does not provide a parameter to configure this value.

I propose adding a new command parameter to the New, Import, and Export wizards that supports a comma-separated list of category identifiers, and to add support for the wizards to use those identifiers.