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
*            indicate that the default title should be used
     * @param message
     *            the message to show in this dialog, or <code>null</code> to
     *            indicate that the error's message should be shown as the
     *            primary message
     * @param status
     *            the error to show to the user
     * @return the code of the button that was pressed that resulted in this
     *         dialog closing. This will be <code>Dialog.OK</code> if the OK
     *         button was pressed, or <code>Dialog.CANCEL</code> if this
     *         dialog's close window decoration or the ESC key was used.
     */
    public static int openError(Shell parent, String dialogTitle,
            String message, IStatus status) {
        return openError(parent, dialogTitle, message, status, IStatus.OK
                | IStatus.INFO | IStatus.WARNING | IStatus.ERROR);
    }
    /**
     * Opens an error dialog to display the given error. Use this method if the
     * error object being displayed contains child items <it>and </it> you wish
     * to specify a mask which will be used to filter the displaying of these
     * children. The error dialog will only be displayed if there is at least
     * one child status matching the mask.
     * 
     * @param parentShell
     *            the parent shell of the dialog, or <code>null</code> if none
     * @param title
     *            the title to use for this dialog, or <code>null</code> to
     *            indicate that the default title should be used
     * @param message