[platform-dev] Replace "Search Field" behavior by just opening Quick Acc

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

In https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=500618 (and a few related ones), there seems to be a consensus building around the idea that the SearchField and more specifically the way user interact with text and table has some pitfalls in term of simplicity of usage, accessibility, maintenance... compared to just showing up the QuickAccessDialog on click.

I'd like to start working on the plain removal of all the "smartness" of SearchField, and make it just a widget showing the QuickAccessDialog on click. The toolbar entry would remain the same, to keep explicit it's a general search field, but the filtering and listing proposals would happen in the dialog.

This would improve factorization, remove ~600 lines of code, get back to very standard and accessible dialogs, without functional loss.

Does anyone have an objection about it?

If so, please put them in the bug preferably.

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Mickael Istria

Eclipse IDE developer, for Red Hat Developers