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Bug 410284

Summary:	After startup the Mac Os system shortcuts do not work in Eclipse IDE.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Roman Knoell <mail>
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	helpwanted
Version:	4.2.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Roman Knoell

2013-06-09 13:55:21 EDT

Mac OS supports shortcut definition centrally in the system preferences.

Eclipse on Mac OS does support these shortcuts, however, only after they have been chosen ONCE manually, i.e. from the menu. For example, you define a shortcut to toggle the line comment "toggle comment" as "Command K". This shortcut will work normally only after it has been selected once from the menu. This has to be repeated for each shortcut after each startup, which is highly annoying and unconfortable.

Comment 1 Paul Webster

2013-06-11 08:24:00 EDT

Eclipse doesn't create the menus until the first time the user shows them (to avoid excess plugin loading).  When they are shown, osx instantiates them and that's why they work from then on.

Eclipse shortcuts are managed from Preferences>General>Keys.

PW

Comment 2 Roman Knoell

2013-06-11 09:20:57 EDT

Saying that Eclipse software doesn’t care about the operating system it is running on – ignoring the whole environment – is not a resolution of its FAULTY behavior IN the respective environment. There might be a way to handle shortcuts otherwise, e.g. to auto-adjust the internal Eclipse settings with respect to the global , and thus more general, operating systems settings.

Comment 3 Paul Webster

2013-06-11 09:28:49 EDT

I don't believe so, as the behaviour you are talking about is not exposed to us it's handled completely in the operating system, and auto-instantiating every menu (with it's attendant performance and memory consumption costs) can't happen.

Eclipse has a shortcut management system, and I see only confusion in trying to add another one that depends on specific widgets being instantiated.

But we would consider a patch (you'd probably have to start at the SWT level).  http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/How_to_Contribute

PW

Comment 4 Lars Vogel

2019-11-27 07:30:37 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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