Bug 65215 - [Workbench] Usability: Double Click is not deterministic (user expects the first entry in the context menu)
Summary: [Workbench] Usability: Double Click is not deterministic (user expects the fi...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Whiteboard: stalebug
Keywords: helpwanted, usability
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Reported: 2004-06-01 22:40 EDT by Michael Scharf CLA
Modified: 2021-10-15 05:26 EDT (History)
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Description Michael Scharf CLA 2004-06-01 22:40:29 EDT 
Here is a typical comment from a user exposed for the first time to eclipse:
  In Windows I know that if I double click on an object that
  the first action from the action menu is invoked.  However,
  in Eclipse I am not sure what the algorithm is and I find I
  just have to try it and see what happens and it appears that
  the invoked action is hard-coded somewhere on a per-object
  basis, which is pretty undeterministic as compared to
  Windows...

Some examples:
- Task View: The first context menu entry is "Add Task", double click
  opens the task (something not on the context menu)
- PDE log view: first entry is "Copy", double click opens
- ...

It would be nice, if the double click action would always be the first in
the context menu or if it would be emphasized in some way....

Maybe the UI-Guidelines should say something about double-clicking...
  http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-UI-Guidelines/Contents.html
Comment 1 Tod Creasey CLA 2007-06-14 11:16:47 EDT 
There are currently no plans to work on this
Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:05:05 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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
Comment 3 Eclipse Genie CLA 2021-10-15 05:26:18 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. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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