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Bug 6065

Summary: Mnemonics on plugin editor's pages conflict with menus
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Component: UIAssignee: Dejan Glozic <dejan>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: P1 Keywords: accessibility
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: 2.0 M6   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Nick Edgar CLA 2001-11-19 10:19:50 EST 
Build 20011116.

- Open a plugin.xml in the PDE plugin editor.
- Select the Runtime page
- select the jar
- hit ALT+D
- it gives focus to the first radiobutton (&Export the entire library)
- it should give focus to the Edit menu

Also, in the Java or Debug perspective, "&Do not export" conflicts with the 
Debug menu.

Using mnemonics on dialogs is OK, because dialogs don't have menus.
If you're using dialogs in a form in a main application window, you must be 
careful not to conflict with the menus.
Note that you can't avoid this in general because other plugins may contribute 
menus.
I recommend not using mnemonics in PDE editors, instead ensuring that tab order 
between the controls works reasonably.

This is an issue for keyboard accessibility.
Comment 1 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-05-13 11:30:34 EDT 
Bumped up severity to reflect priority.
Comment 2 Dejan Glozic CLA 2002-05-20 21:41:04 EDT 
Removed.