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Bug 65215

Summary:	[Workbench] Usability: Double Click is not deterministic (user expects the first entry in the context menu)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Michael Scharf <eclipse>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P5	Keywords:	helpwanted, usability
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Michael Scharf

2004-06-01 22:40:29 EDT

Here is a typical comment from a user exposed for the first time to eclipse:
  In Windows I know that if I double click on an object that
  the first action from the action menu is invoked.  However,
  in Eclipse I am not sure what the algorithm is and I find I
  just have to try it and see what happens and it appears that
  the invoked action is hard-coded somewhere on a per-object
  basis, which is pretty undeterministic as compared to
  Windows...

Some examples:
- Task View: The first context menu entry is "Add Task", double click
  opens the task (something not on the context menu)
- PDE log view: first entry is "Copy", double click opens
- ...

It would be nice, if the double click action would always be the first in
the context menu or if it would be emphasized in some way....

Maybe the UI-Guidelines should say something about double-clicking...
  http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-UI-Guidelines/Contents.html

Comment 1 Tod Creasey

2007-06-14 11:16:47 EDT

There are currently no plans to work on this

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:05:05 EDT

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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2021-10-15 05:26:18 EDT

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. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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