Bug 532004 - Define keyword and label for a preference
Summary: Define keyword and label for a preference
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.7   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Blocks: 532005
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Reported: 2018-03-05 04:44 EST by Mickael Istria CLA
Modified: 2020-02-12 09:20 EST (History)
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Description Mickael Istria CLA 2018-03-05 04:44:34 EST 
The preference misses concepts for common usage in UI such as keywords and labels. Having keywords and labels associated to a preference would allow easier factorization and research in the various entry points such as PreferenceDialog or Quick Access and could also be used by Oomph to show more meaningful data to users.
To achieve that, the Platform UI component could provide a `preferenceDescription` extension-point, allowing to bind keywords, label and description to a preference. These values could be returned by new methods in PreferenceUtil API and used by various use-cases.