Summary: | A shortcut to minimze view stack | ||
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Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Mickael Istria <mistria> |
Component: | UI | Assignee: | Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | daniel_megert, gautier.desaintmartinlacaze, Lars.Vogel, loskutov |
Version: | 4.7 | Keywords: | helpwanted, usability |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
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Description
Mickael Istria
2017-12-08 08:07:27 EST
@Gautier: would you like to provide a patch for this one? Two things: 1) Most likely you want to minimize *view stack*, not just a view. 2) "Ctrl+Alt" modifier together should not be used, I can't recall where it is stated, but this is the rule. (In reply to Andrey Loskutov from comment #2) > 2) "Ctrl+Alt" modifier together should not be used, I can't recall where it > is stated, but this is the rule. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=427999#c47 Hello,
> 1) Most likely you want to minimize *view stack*, not just a view.
Andrey, I think you're right. I want to minimize the view stack and not only the view.
I also want that all view stacks have the following behaviour :
If I open a view via ctrl+3 (i.e. Git Staging for commit), I want to show the view in the Original Location. I know there is an option in each view stack for this but I didn't find a global preference for "Show in the Original Location".
I don't know how to store this globally and synchronize between my computers.
Andrey, Lars, thanks for the reminder about ctrl+alt modifier. It's not a problem for me or Mickael because we use fedora and a qwerty US keyboard, but indead, many people use other OS or keyboard layouts.
@Mickael, I am not available to provide a patch. I would like to work on eclipse-bluesky first.
Indeed, I was thinking about the viewStack. Too bad retarded OSs prevent is from using good shortcuts... could a Windows user (Andrey) make and try some proposals that aould integrate well in this user story? Moving to 4.8.M6 as it's an easy fix (once we have a good shortcut) with a good value. Let's try to have a good shortcut for it in M7. While this very valuable shortcut would deserve a 2 keys combination, the shortcuts in Eclipse IDE are almost all almost all used. I suggest we use a sequence as a 1st approach: Shift+Alt+Q W . Shift+Alt+Q is the beginning shortcut to access the list of views, and W is used by many tools for close (on Ctrl+W). Semantically, this can be interepreted as "views" (Shift+Alt+Q) "close" (W) which is somehow what users want to achieve with such shortcut (except in practice we'll hide them instead of closing them, but I don't think users would mind). WDYT? @Mickael Because we can't use Ctrl+Alt modifier, I think your proposal makes sense. +1 But I have one question, for the open view scenario, what shortcut should we use for open the view ? Should it be Alt + Shift + Q, Q and choose the needed view? Or ctrl+3 and find the needed view ? (In reply to Gautier de SAINT MARTIN LACAZE from comment #10) > But I have one question, for the open view scenario, what shortcut should we > use for open the view ? > Should it be Alt + Shift + Q, Q and choose the needed view? Or ctrl+3 and > find the needed view ? Both work and are supported. Alt+Shift+Q Q opens a dedicated dialog which allows to discover and browse views. But for users who know which view they want to open (or at least feel like they can guess a keyword), Ctrl+3 is much faster and more powerful. In general, it's better to "evangelize" about Ctrl+3 as it's really a crazy good UX that allows to do a lot of things. Detailed shortcuts for sporadic actions are IMO not worth taking users' memory compared to going through the menu when needed. > In general, it's better to "evangelize" about Ctrl+3 as it's really a crazy
> good UX that allows to do a lot of things. Detailed shortcuts for sporadic
> actions are IMO not worth taking users' memory compared to going through the
> menu when needed.
I agree.
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