Bug 175117 [StatusHandling] Cannot generally plug status support into ErrorDialogs
M5 Currently we have several ways to get ErrorDialogs that do not go through the status handling - we can either call the constructor or use our own class (there are 10 in the SDK alone). Our strategy of overriding the static method hits many cases but there are many quite common ones we will miss (like CVS errors for instance). I think we want to look at a way to extend the current error dialog rather than override the static method.
bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/dialogs/ErrorDialog.java
public static boolean AUTOMATED_MODE = false;
    /**
     * Reserve room for this many list items.
     */
    private static final int LIST_ITEM_COUNT = 7;
    /**
     * The nesting indent.
     */
    private static final String NESTING_INDENT = "  "; 
    /**
     * The Details button.
     */
    private Button detailsButton;
    /**
     * The title of the dialog.
     */
    private String title;
    /**
     * The SWT list control that displays the error details.
     */
    private List list;
    /**
     * Indicates whether the error details viewer is currently created.
     */
    private boolean listCreated = false;
    /**
     * Filter mask for determining which status items to display.
     */
    private int displayMask = 0xFFFF;
    /**