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Bug 563275

Summary: Consider restoring the text field for quick access in the toolbar
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Till Brychcy <register.eclipse>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: Lars.Vogel, mistria
Version: 4.16   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Mac OS X   
See Also: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=500618
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Description Till Brychcy CLA 2020-05-18 03:25:22 EDT 
(Extracted comment by Mickael Istria from bug 500618 comment 62)
> (In reply to Till Brychcy from comment #61)
> > After a few month of working with it, I observed that I hardly use Quick
> > Access anymore after the text field in the toolbar has gone.
> 
> Making the toolitem attractive is more something to discuss in bug 551324
> IMO.
> 
> > Would it be hard to resurrect the text field?
> 
> Switching back from dedicated dialog to the pop-up style would re-introduce
> a lot of complicated code and a lot of accessibility issues or small
> annoyance about proposal list position, size and so on...
> So we should try to get away from it.
> But we could still consider moving back to a more prominent tool item,
> possibility with a text field that would "echo" what's in the dialog.
> However, good luck getting a concensus on that one as many people have
> voiced they prefer saving space over promoting features...
Comment 1 Lars Vogel CLA 2020-05-18 03:56:43 EDT 
Till, what is your issue? You dislike the icon or want the inline dialog again? I like that the current behaviour is consistent, e.g. with open type which also uses a centered dialog.
Comment 2 Mickael Istria CLA 2020-05-18 04:04:58 EDT 
I agree with Till: people who use the mouse a lot were better served by the more attractive text field.
Comment 3 Till Brychcy CLA 2020-05-18 04:23:50 EDT 
Previously I just had to click & type and would see the hits right below (without having to move the eyes to a different part of the screen).

Very direct, very intuitive and often quicker than doing it via the menu bar.

Now I'd have to click into a much smaller icon (which actually looks disabled because it's grey).  Then a dialog with a text field opens somewhere else on the screen and I have to move my eye focus there and type there. Not really that much faster than navigating the menu bar.

So, somehow I don't even think about it any more.

Regarding other tools like "Open Type": I suspect it is exactly bad that the mechanism for triggering actions like opening a tool looks like one itself.