Bug 33628 [Preferences] provide API for showing a specified preference page
There is no way for a plugin to open the (workbench) preference dialog with a certain peference page selected. Enabling this would allow plugins to refer the user to a certain preference page, for example when a misconfiguration is detected during execution of an action. Also this enables developers to write a new search panel to find a text in the preference pages and get the user right there. A method select(IPreferencePage page), select(IPreferenceNode node) or select(String path) in org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog would help.
bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/preference/PreferenceDialog.java
.getElements(PreferenceManager.POST_ORDER);
		for (Iterator i = nodes.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
			IPreferenceNode node = (IPreferenceNode) i.next();
			if (node.getId().equals(nodeId))
				return node;
		}
		return null;
	}
	/**
	 * Get the last known tree width.
	 * 
	 * @return the width.
	 */
	private int getLastTreeWidth() {
		return lastTreeWidth;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the preference mananger used by this preference dialog.
	 * 
	 * @return the preference mananger
	 */
	public PreferenceManager getPreferenceManager() {
		return preferenceManager;
	}
	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.jface.preference.IPreferencePageContainer#getPreferenceStore()
	 */
	public IPreferenceStore getPreferenceStore() {