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Bug 17185

Summary:	[Accessibility] F1 does not work
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Claude Knaus <Claude_Knaus>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Silenio Quarti <Silenio_Quarti>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	carolynmacleod4, duongn, ericwill, snorthov, Tokei.Ihto
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	accessibility
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
Whiteboard:

Description Claude Knaus

2002-05-23 06:43:51 EDT

F1 linux-gtk

Press F1 on some element in the package view. Nothing happens.
On w2k, a hover appears with entries "Java Views" "Package Views".

Comment 1 Silenio Quarti

2002-05-23 12:28:25 EDT

This has not been implemented yet.

Comment 2 Boris Shingarov

2002-05-23 14:50:59 EDT

Changing status to LATER.

Comment 3 Silenio Quarti

2002-05-23 17:14:32 EDT

I believe this is important and should be fixed.

Comment 4 Silenio Quarti

2002-05-23 17:19:54 EDT

Support for help has been added. There is one issue yet. On GTK, the
help callback happens with Ctrl+F1 or Shift+F1. On Windows and Motif,
the help callback happens with F1.

Need to decide if this is acceptable or not?

Comment 5 Boris Shingarov

2002-05-24 12:30:17 EDT

I believe very strongly that we must follow the platform's standards.  
Especially on a platform that claims "UI consistency among applications" as one 
of the primary goals.

Comment 6 Silenio Quarti

2002-05-27 11:07:52 EDT

Steve, what do you think?

Comment 7 Steve Northover

2002-05-27 13:18:13 EDT

We should use the standard help key for the platform which is not a simple F1 
according to BS.  SSQ, do you want to mark this WONTFIX?

Comment 8 Silenio Quarti

2002-05-27 13:34:23 EDT

Marking as WONTFIX.

Comment 9 Duong Nguyen

2008-02-27 14:40:51 EST

I tried several applications (FireFox, Terminal, GIMP, gEdit...) on ReadHat and SLES and they all use F1 for help and not Shift-F1. GIMP was the only one that supported Shift-F1 but it's used for Context Help only. 

I'm not sure if Shift-F1 was used a few years ago but it appears that F1 is the standard key for help now.

Comment 10 Steve Northover

2008-02-27 15:05:08 EST

Not sure why this is reopened.  We just use the key bindings provided by the GTK.  If other applications choose to look for F1, then GTK needs to be changed to look for it, not SWT.

Comment 11 Duong Nguyen

2008-02-27 16:35:09 EST

I still think that we have a problem in our implementation even after talking to Steve. I'm not sure if it's an Eclipse problem or SWT or both.

Most applications on Linux would open a help window when you press F1 except for Eclipse. You have to press Shift-F1 to get help.

Shift-F1 is for Context Help (which appears to be support in Windows and Linux applications). When Shift-F1 is pressed it should change the cursor to an arrow with a question mark, and you can press on any button, view or editor on the screen to get a pop-up help. We (SWT) do not support this.

Eclipse F1 help is neither a context pop-up help nor a separate general help window. It's a view within Eclipse that show help for the current active item (which is a context sensitive help). 

We should make F1 or Shift-F1 open Eclipse help the same way on all platforms.

Comment 12 Eric Williams

2017-11-14 13:18:26 EST

I'm not sure what this has to do with accessibility per se, but if anyone wants to have this debate then I suggest doing it under a different bug.