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Bug 366231

Summary: [Compatibility] Quick Switch Editor issues
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Stephan Herrmann <stephan.herrmann>
Component: UIAssignee: Remy Suen <remy.suen>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact: Remy Suen <remy.suen>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 4.2   
Target Milestone: 4.2 M5   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:

Description Stephan Herrmann CLA 2011-12-09 13:08:14 EST 
In 3.x Ctrl-E would be equivalent to clicking the ">> 42" button
popping up a list from which to select an open editor.

In 4.x I see this split into two separate features each having
its specific usability issues:

Ctrl-E gives a list that can run over the screen boarders.
As one effect of this the field for typing a name prefix is not
visible and when reducing the list to only a few entries none
of them are visible => I can't use this strategy for selection.

Clicking the >> button gives a menu-like list, which is truncated,
unordered and doesn't respond to any keys. I don't know how I can
use this to efficiently find an editor in a long list.

Only Ctrl-Shift-E works to satisfaction in these regards.

I should mention I'm on Kubuntu 11.04.
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2011-12-09 13:44:00 EST 
I will fix the Ctrl+E issue for M5.

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention, Stephan.
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2012-01-03 11:21:16 EST 
(In reply to comment #1)
> I will fix the Ctrl+E issue for M5.

Ctrl+E has been fixed in master. Thanks again, Stephan.
http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=d0feea8c6522fde2ee1565faa21bc2c17f2775f7
Comment 3 Remy Suen CLA 2012-01-24 10:09:06 EST 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Ctrl-E gives a list that can run over the screen boarders.
> As one effect of this the field for typing a name prefix is not
> visible and when reducing the list to only a few entries none
> of them are visible => I can't use this strategy for selection.

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