Project: Eclipse_Platform_UI
Bug 107271 [Preferences] [RCP] FilteredPreferenceDialog should allow history and filtering to be turned off
Reported: 2005-08-17 17:41:09 | Status: verified fixed

We have built an Eclipse RCP based application. The application was initially built and shipped on top of Eclipse 3.0. The application uses the standard PropertyDialog provided by the platform. We are in the process of moving to Eclipse 3.1 to pick up a few things from the platform. In the process, we are being forced to pick up this new UI behavior in the property dialog that we don't necessarily want or need. The number of pages that will be contributed to the dialog is probably going to be fairly small. Adding these controls means that our documentation folks are now going to have to document how they work and update screen snapshots. Changes like this to the UI should be made in such a way that they are not forced to be inherited by the RCP applications that are using them. Whether that is by changing the class hierarchy or using some other means doesn't much matter. With the advent of the RCP framework, the "customer base" of the platform UI is potentially much larger than just the IDE and these basic building blocks need to remain stable over time. Please provide a way to turn off these controls in the properties dialog. Even more importantly, please make sure not to make future changes to core user interface functionality that cannot be selectively turned off. These basic building blocks need to be treated much the same as API is within Eclipse. Thanks.

Files changed in fix:
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/IWorkbenchPreferenceConstants.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/WorkbenchMessages.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/dialogs/FilteredPreferenceDialog.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/dialogs/FilteredTree.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/dialogs/NewWizardNewPage.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/dialogs/ShowViewDialog.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/internal/themes/ColorsAndFontsPreferencePage.java bundles/org.eclipse.ui/src/org/eclipse/ui/internal/UIPreferenceInitializer.java