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
messageArea.updateText(newMessage, newType);
	}
	/**
	 * Sets the minimum page size.
	 * 
	 * @param minWidth
	 *            the minimum page width
	 * @param minHeight
	 *            the minimum page height
	 * @see #setMinimumPageSize(Point)
	 */
	public void setMinimumPageSize(int minWidth, int minHeight) {
		minimumPageSize.x = minWidth;
		minimumPageSize.y = minHeight;
	}
	/**
	 * Sets the minimum page size.
	 * 
	 * @param size
	 *            the page size encoded as <code>new Point(width,height)</code>
	 * @see #setMinimumPageSize(int,int)
	 */
	public void setMinimumPageSize(Point size) {
		minimumPageSize.x = size.x;
		minimumPageSize.y = size.y;
	}
	/**
	 * Sets the preference store for this preference dialog.
	 * 
	 * @param store