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Bug 2257

Summary: (potential usability?) Perspective preference on drugs (1GECXF8)
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire>
Component: UIAssignee: Kevin Haaland <Kevin_Haaland>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 Keywords: usability
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Windows NT   
Whiteboard:

Description Kevin McGuire CLA 2001-10-10 22:32:16 EDT 
The preference for what happens when you open a new perspective messes with 
your mind
because it changes the meaning of Shift and Alt.  I understand you'ld like to 
reuse these,
but I suspect it introduces a pretty wierd usability problem.  This only works 
if you believe you'll
only ever change this setting ONCE in your life, otherwise you have to remember 
that the keys
now do something different.

People get used to what hot keys do and then they pick them automatically.  
Changing their meaning
forces them to retrain this automatic action.


NOTES:

KH (9/19/2001 11:27:10 AM)
	Others also complained about not being able to find this capability. 
(Did not think to look in preferences page)
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2001-10-29 18:03:07 EST 
PRODUCT VERSION:

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Comment 2 Kevin Haaland CLA 2002-01-29 11:46:36 EST 
Duplicate