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Bug 336742

Summary:	[accessibility] Provide key binding to open launch configuration dialog
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Rüdiger Herrmann <ruediger.herrmann>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	Platform-Debug-Inbox <platform-debug-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	markus.kell.r, Michael_Rennie, pawel.1.piech
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Rüdiger Herrmann

2011-02-09 13:16:31 EST

Lately I  had to work with launch configurations that cannot be created by the IDE on the fly. E.g. when running OSGi applications, the IDE often cannot decuce what bundles to activate/include in the launch.
Thus, I often need to open the launch configuration dialog and create a new config or alter an existing one.
In this scenario it would help a lot if there were a shortcut to directly open the launch configuration dialog.
Maybe Ctrl+Alt+X, X and Ctrl+Alt+D, D are stll free...

Comment 1 Michael Rennie

2011-02-09 13:49:48 EST

(In reply to comment #0)
> Lately I  had to work with launch configurations that cannot be created by the
> IDE on the fly. E.g. when running OSGi applications, the IDE often cannot
> decuce what bundles to activate/include in the launch.
> Thus, I often need to open the launch configuration dialog and create a new
> config or alter an existing one.
> In this scenario it would help a lot if there were a shortcut to directly open
> the launch configuration dialog.
> Maybe Ctrl+Alt+X, X and Ctrl+Alt+D, D are stll free...

You could specify the key-binding yourself on the General > Keys preference page.

The actions to bind the keys to are the Run... and Debug... actions to open the launch dialog in run mode and debug mode respectively

Comment 2 Rüdiger Herrmann

2011-02-09 14:00:25 EST

(In reply to comment #1)
> [ ... ]
> You could specify the key-binding yourself on the General > Keys preference
> page.
Sure, that's what I do when I find my self clicking the same menu entries again and again.
Wouldn't it be more convenient (and for those that don't know about the key preferences page) to have the binding predefined?

Comment 3 Markus Keller

2012-01-06 08:51:23 EST

"Alt+Shift+D, D" and "Alt+Shift+X, X" would be nice for the Debug... and Run... commands.

That follows the pattern we already use for Show View ("Alt+Shift+Q, Q" to bring up the dialog).

Comment 4 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 03:30:57 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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