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Bug 330863

Summary:	[context] alt+click should use different keyboard shortcut when clicking whitespace
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Sam Davis <sam.davis>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Mylyn Inbox <mylyn-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	shawn.minto
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Sam Davis

2010-11-22 17:07:12 EST

Sometimes when I try to alt+click something in the package explorer, I miss and alt+click the whitespace instead, causing everything to be unfiltered, which takes about a second. Then my package explorer is full of things I don't care about and I have to turn filtering off and back on to get back the view I had before. This is very annoying. I think it would better to use ctrl+alt+click for whitespace and just alt+click when clicking on a node.

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2011-07-21 18:13:31 EDT

I am concerned that adding a another key-binding for Alt+click would make it even harder for users to discover this feature. It sounds like there are two problems here:

* Unfiltering the root takes too long: Tracked on bug 267143.
* It's hard to leave Alt+click mode.

Shawn, to address the latter, could we add a binding for the Esc key?

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

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