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Ctril-Shift is one of the standard keyboard hotketys for locale switching. Although we do not prevent the use of locale switching currently by using accelerators with Ctrl-Shift this is still a potential problem. UI Uses of Ctrl-Shift File-Save All File-Close All Window-Navigation-Previous Editor Window-Navigation-Previous View
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.
