Re: [platform-core-dev] What is being done in 3.0 to clean up accelerato

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I suggest re-posting on the platform-ui-dev
mailing list.  Keybindings are implemented entirely in the UI, there
is no involvement with the core plug-ins.
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platform-core-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/10/2004
02:05:21 PM:

> In 2.1 and AFAIK right through M6, an editor writer (me) has a heck
of a 
> time trying to get through the accelerator key briar patch. Specifically,
> 
> - The org.eclipse.ui.editorActions way of specifying accelerator keys
> seems to have been orphaned (without being deprecated). Keys assigned
in 
> that way just don't work if there is any conflict with another key
> assignment, and when they do work don't participate in the user dialogs
> for reassigning, enabling, etc. accelerator keys.
> 
> - It seems to be impossible for an editor to remap an accelerator
key 
> defined by another plug-in, like the Navigate > Open Declaration
(F3) 
> mapping done by Java. You can receive the action, but nothing I have
> found will make the accelerator key work outside of Java.
> 
> - Several plug-ins (Java is the worst offender) grab global accelerator
> key assignments, effectively removing them from the pool available
to 
> other plug-ins.
> 
> - The number of accelerator keys land-grabbed by Eclipse continues
to 
> grow at an alarming pace. Soon there will be no keys at all left over
> for new plug-ins to use.
> 
> Accelerator keys have historically been the worst-document, most-churned
> area of Eclipse. (And when it is broken in a milestone, slowest-fixed.)
> Could we please have:
> 
> - Eclipse stop grabbing global accelerator keys.
> - Contextual accelerator key assignment (when user is in a particular
> editor/view/perspective) instead of the current all-too-global scheme.
> 
> This is becoming a major usability issue. How is 3.0 going to resolve
it?
> 
> Respectfully,
> 
> Bob Foster
> http://xmlbuddy.com/
> 
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