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The three child pages of the PDE preferences (Advanced Tracing, Java Build Path Control and Runtime Tracing) have no mneumonics on any of thier widget labels and as a result many of the fields require use of a mouse to access them.
This is not entirely correct: since fields are regular SWT widgets, they can be accessed using TAB and arrow keys. What mnemonics (not mneumonics :-) give you is DIRECT access to widgets (compared to N tabs to reach the widget). We will fix this, but just for the record, you DO NOT need a mouse to use the dialog, it is just faster when mnemonics are present.
In the case of PDE preferences there are some entry fields inaccessible to the keyboard without a mouse. Select Advanced Tracing and then tab to Core Resource Management. You will see two entries in the Tracing Options. Now hit tab to get to the Tracing Options A combo box will open on the second one. Hitting tab again will do nothing - hitting the up or down arrow keys will change the value of the combo box. You can get out of it by selecting Shift tab to back up but there is no way to ever select the first entry in Tracing Options without the mouse.
All PDE preferences now have mnemonics.
