Bug 110216 - [DetachedViews] No keyboard navigation to 'Detached' windows
Summary: [DetachedViews] No keyboard navigation to 'Detached' windows
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Eric Moffatt CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
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Reported: 2005-09-21 13:43 EDT by Eric Moffatt CLA
Modified: 2008-04-22 11:03 EDT (History)
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Description Eric Moffatt CLA 2005-09-21 13:43:27 EDT 
I've just noticed that, if you have 'Detached' windows, that they don't 
participate in the 'control-tab' flow and they also aren't 'top-level' windows 
(i.e. they aren't accessible through 'Alt-Tab' either). This means we have no 
keyboard access to any detached window.
Comment 1 Karice McIntyre CLA 2005-09-21 14:06:54 EDT 
Added accessibility keyword.
Comment 2 Markus Keller CLA 2006-10-25 08:22:49 EDT 
On WinXP, you can use Alt+F6 and Alt+Shift+F6 to switch focus between main window (workbench) and tool windows (detached views). However, the switching sequence becomes weird with more than one tool window :-(.
I don't know whether other windowing systems have similar support.
Comment 3 Karice McIntyre CLA 2006-12-04 09:41:29 EST 
Eric, what is the status/target of this bug?
Comment 4 Eric Moffatt CLA 2006-12-07 16:01:20 EST 
Right now it's awaiting cycles to look at it. Unless its severity is increased I wasn't planning on any action in 3.3...
Comment 5 Eric Moffatt CLA 2006-12-11 10:34:25 EST 
I will take a look to check that, should someone accidentally create a Detached Window that they can at least restore themselves back to the 'normal' state using the keyboard.
Comment 6 Benjamin Muskalla CLA 2007-07-05 17:57:28 EDT 
Alt+F6 works at least on gnome (gtk) but i don't know if this also works when running eclipse on other window managers. Maybe a generic solution shipped with eclipse would be better.
Comment 7 Mike Wilson CLA 2008-04-22 11:03:37 EDT 
The generic way to do this, on all platforms, is to use the "switch views" pop-up (accessible via cntrl-F7 on linux and windows, and command-F7 on the Mac) to pick the view that is being shown in the detached window. This will activate the window appropriately.