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It would be cool to replace the Search button of the Search toolbar/action set by a dropdown menu that lists all available pages. The default action of that drop down could be like the one of the currently existing button. The actions in the drop down list would reflect all registered search pages and open them directly. I found it a bit of a detour to have to navigate to the wanted page in the often out of range tabs of the search dialog. Some plug-ins don’t introduce toolbar buttons to directly access their search pages. I already coded the according action and descriptors and attached them to this feature request. If you like you can transfer the code into the Eclipse platform code base.
Created attachment 14085 [details] Plug-in with suggested Search drop down toolbar button Please feel free to use the provided code. No legal strings attached.
Cool idea.
Created attachment 38395 [details] replaces the search action in the toolbar I have taken the proposed implementation and made it part of the search plugin, cleaned up access to the search-page extension. The patch replaces the action in the toolbar by the drop-down. The behaviour when pressing the drop-down remains to be the same as before, so this is a pure enhancement, offering direct access to the search-pages.
Thanks Klaus and Markus! I had a look at this with Erich and we agreed that this an intersting polish that we want to add to RC1. We will have to see what's the reaction of teams on top. We will decide in RC3 and RC4 if it will stay in. I modified the patch to filter the shown actions using the activity filter and reformated it to the JDT UI code style. patch released > 20060412
sweet, many, many thanks, guys!!! just to give you some more arguments to defend adding this little but useful drop down: the company i work for provides a whole solution based on eclipse and thus also adds many search pages. when using the regular search toolbar button, i find myself scrolling for the right page a lot. the drop-down gets me to my searches right away with two short-range clicks.
Sorry, we have to hold back the release due to bug 136397. The action is forced to load what is critical for the startup performance.
Feature released as bug 136397 is fixed > 20071029
I reopn this and wait for after M3: There are still remaining issues in bug 207744 and bug 207829
released > 20071106
