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Bug 360639

Summary: [KeyBindings] shortcut for redo does not follow standard linux shortcuts
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Missing name Mising name <diggory.hardy>
Component: UIAssignee: Paul Webster <pwebster>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 3.6.2   
Target Milestone: 4.2 M4   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Missing name Mising name CLA 2011-10-12 05:37:18 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20110218-0911

Hi,

One of the things which always put me off using eclipse is its poor integration with the desktop environment, so I'll suggest a small (but noticable) improvement:

In linux the standard shortcut for "redo" is Ctrl+Shift+Z (it may actually be DE dependent, but I'm pretty sure that's standard in both KDE and Gnome). So shouldn't eclipse support this by default (in addition to or instead of the windows shortcut)? It's easy to press and one of the most annoying things with a text editor is undo/redo shortcuts not doing what's expected (I've occasionally lost input this way).

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2011-10-12 09:20:20 EDT 
Not sure if it makes sense to change the keybindings for something that's been set in stone for so long.
Comment 2 Missing name Mising name CLA 2011-10-12 09:37:14 EDT 
You're right, removing a well-known shortcut would probably infuriate a lot of users. So is adding a second shortcut feasible?
Comment 3 Paul Webster CLA 2011-10-25 16:20:34 EDT 
Ctrl+Shift+Z is just not bound to anything in eclipse?  I'll scan the plugin.xml

PW
Comment 4 Paul Webster CLA 2011-11-02 14:00:50 EDT 
I wasn't able to find anything in my 4.2 install, I'll see about adding it for linux.

PW
Comment 6 Missing name Mising name CLA 2011-11-11 07:02:03 EST 
Awesome; cheers Paul!
Comment 7 Paul Webster CLA 2011-12-06 14:16:55 EST 
In I20111205-2330
PW