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Bug 502123

Summary: Cycle selected item in the Ctrl+E list by when keep pressing Ctrl(+Shift)+E
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Patrik Suzzi <psuzzi>
Component: UIAssignee: Patrik Suzzi <psuzzi>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: bsd, nobody
Version: 4.6   
Target Milestone: 4.7 M4   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 10   
See Also: https://git.eclipse.org/r/82009
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New behavior for Ctrl+E none

Description Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-09-26 03:29:46 EDT 
After solving Bug 368977, Ctrl+E can switch tabs (editors/views) in the same stack (see: http://i.imgur.com/yc2t3WL.gif)

However, if you keep pressing Ctrl+E, there is no rotation of the selected item. To rotate, you have to press up/down arrows, which steal the focus from the user making this not really intuitive. 

I think it would feel more intuitive for the user keep pressing Ctrl+E to rotate the selection, and press Ctrl+Shift+E to counter-rotate.

In this way, I'm sure the users will really appreciate the Ctrl+E feature, considering it a valid alternative of the missing Ctrl+Tab.
Comment 1 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-09-27 11:19:48 EDT 
Created attachment 264453 [details]
New behavior for Ctrl+E

The new behavior is visible in the attached anim gif
Comment 2 Eclipse Genie CLA 2016-09-27 11:23:36 EDT 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/82009
Comment 3 Brian de Alwis CLA 2016-09-27 11:57:50 EDT 
How does using the arrows 'steal the focus'?  It's pretty expected that the up/down arrows will move the selection in a list, and a list is shown.

But I think your argument is that Ctrl-E should behave like Ctrl-F6/F7/F8 and cycle through the list?  ("Rotate" implies moving shifting the list content upwards shown such that the top-most element is moved to the bottom.)
Comment 4 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-09-27 16:07:44 EDT 
(In reply to Brian de Alwis from comment #3)
> How does using the arrows 'steal the focus'?  It's pretty expected that the
> up/down arrows will move the selection in a list, and a list is shown.

Pressing Ctrl-E and then looking for and pressing the arrow keys, is more dispersive than just keep pressing Ctrl-E.

(In reply to Brian de Alwis from comment #3)
> But I think your argument is that Ctrl-E should behave like Ctrl-F6/F7/F8
> and cycle through the list? 

Yes, Indeed, I think cycling through the list, similarly to Ctrl-F6, is more immediate to the user.


Sorry for the wrong expressions.
Comment 5 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-10-03 20:30:52 EDT 
With latest change submitted for Bug 368977, cycling through the list is already implemented.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 368977 ***