Bug 190301 - [KeyBindings] Three rows of buttons in the Keys preference page
Summary: [KeyBindings] Three rows of buttons in the Keys preference page
Status: ASSIGNED
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3   Edit
Hardware: Other Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Reported: 2007-05-31 14:12 EDT by Stefan Xenos CLA
Modified: 2019-09-06 16:05 EDT (History)
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Description Stefan Xenos CLA 2007-05-31 14:12:07 EDT
3.3 M7 / Linux / GTK

Three rows of buttons makes the Keys preference page look messy. See attached screenshot.

I see several options:

1. Vertically-align the "Advanced..." button with Restore Defaults and Apply.
2. Remove the "Advanced..." button and associated filters.
3. Move the advanced options to a child preference page, and remove them entirely from the

I'd opt for option 2. Filtering a binding for any reason can be confusing. There don't appear to be many bindings that are affected by this filter (I tried turning them off and didn't see any new commands) so there shouldn't be much additional clutter caused by removing the filters.
Comment 1 Stefan Xenos CLA 2007-05-31 14:13:43 EDT
Apparently I didn't finish my sentence here:

"3. Move the advanced options to a child preference page, and remove them
entirely from the"

...remove them entirely from the main keys preference page.
Comment 2 Paul Webster CLA 2007-05-31 14:43:01 EDT
Those filters generate a lot of extra commands in the "show unbound commands" mode, and add a lot of extra contexts to the When combo box.

PW
Comment 3 Stefan Xenos CLA 2007-06-01 16:50:00 EDT
> Those filters generate a lot of extra commands in the "show unbound
> commands" mode, and add a lot of extra contexts to the When combo box.

I always use "show unbound commands" mode, and did not find the command list to be excessively long. However, that is a somewhat personal reaction. Realigning the button would solve this just as well as removing it. :-)
Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:05:31 EDT
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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