Bug 532005 - Allow PreferenceDialog and Quick Access to search for a specific preference
Summary: Allow PreferenceDialog and Quick Access to search for a specific 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
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords: usability
Depends on: 532002 532004
Blocks:
  Show dependency tree
 
Reported: 2018-03-05 04:46 EST by Mickael Istria CLA
Modified: 2018-03-12 10:09 EDT (History)
3 users (show)

See Also:

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Mickael Istria CLA 2018-03-05 04:46:43 EST 
In order to ease navigation in preferences, the PreferenceDialog search box and Quick Access should provide a way to match an individual preference and to show the specific preference page to edit it.
Comment 1 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2018-03-09 07:11:38 EST 
If I understand correctly, an example would be typing "format all lines" on Quick Assist (or PreferenceDialog) to open "Java > Editor > Save Actions" preferences page. 

To do this, we should:
- get a list with all the preferences, and get the text displayed
- let the user filter on all the preferences by the text displayed 
- add this filtering option to the Preferences > Search
- add this filtering option to the QuickAccess Providers. 

Note: If we filter on preferences text, we should consider also cases where the preference text is repeated in different pages, like: "Completion overwrites" which is both in the page Java > Editor > Content Assist and in JavaScript > Editor > Content Assist.