Summary: | Should avoid use of Alt Shift and Ctrl Space | ||
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Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey> |
Component: | UI | Assignee: | Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | franzholz2, mnemo, n.a.edgar |
Version: | 2.0 | Keywords: | accessibility |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Windows 2000 | ||
Whiteboard: |
Description
Tod Creasey
2002-01-14 13:32:32 EST
Please note that Ctrl-Shift still works - the mode switching occurs on key release so if Ctrl-Shift+C (for instance) is selected the mode switching will not occur. If the keys are released after seleting just Ctrl-Shift then the mode switches as expected. Low priority if we decide to change at all. Deferred Reopening. Should review for uses of Ctrl-Shift and add alternate accelerators if required. Should be Alt Shift. Ctrl Shift is fine Closing PR. Al+Shift plus accelerator supercedes mode switching so both functions are fine. Mode switching does not occur until Alt is released. *** Bug 83698 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I have now found the solution for this with Windows 2000. It is possible to turn this useless key switch to the US keyboard off: Configuration System-->Country settings and Input Maybe you should put this information into the README file for Windows. *** Bug 105663 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** There is a more recent bug, currently owned by Mike Wilson, which will attempt to move our key binding set around so it no longer overlaps with the layout changing binding. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78081 *** I suffered from this bug for a couple of weeks without understanding that it was a windows *feature*. I use SHIFT-ALT-E X to launch my plugin and when I returned the developer workbench had another locale. My plugin is rather advanced and supports lots of locales and locale changing. Therefore I suspected that maybe somehow some change made by the the runtime workbench had also affected the developer workbench. I tried for several days to locate places in my code that could somehow modify the locale. Also under several weeks I had to put of with this bug, and restart Eclipse all the time. This was very annoying and stole a lot of quality time from my project. After all that time and frustration I feel that it's arrogant to put off this bug as low priority or to think that changing something in the Windows control panel is a "fix". Obviously, users that suffer from these problems don't KNOW it's infact a feature so how can they use this "fix" ? I suggest instead to change some of the hotkey combinations, or even better to catch the ALT-SHIFT keypress and display a "changing locale" tooltip (much like when you press NUMLOCK in Eclipse). Or ofc, really really ideally Microsoft would not have implemented such a obscure feature. Anyhow, IMHO; it's very important that the user is not left confused as I was. This was a very frustrating thing to go through and something needs to be done about this! That's my $0.02. Thanks. |