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Bug 77722

Summary:	[IDE] Open external file menu action uses '.' as shortcut
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Rafael Chaves <eclipse>
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Paul Webster <pwebster>
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	P5	CC:	bokowski, daniel_megert, Tod_Creasey
Version:	3.0	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Rafael Chaves

2004-11-03 13:51:30 EST

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The "Open external file..." menu action uses '.' as shortcut... that seems
unusual. Was it intentional?

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2004-11-03 13:58:51 EST

Yes, since all others were taken and '.' is valid. Why, is there a problem with '.'?

Comment 2 Rafael Chaves

2004-11-03 14:02:37 EST

No, it works, is just is non-intuitive and hard to see. Maybe there are other
programs that do the same, but I don't remember seeing this before.

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2004-11-03 14:04:55 EST

Kai, please decide whether you want to leave as is.

Comment 4 Kai-Uwe Maetzel

2004-11-29 06:54:30 EST

If 'Refresh' would choose 'h', 'Open External File' could take 'F'.
Otherwise we let it as it is. Moving to Platform UI for comment.

Comment 5 Michael Van Meekeren

2004-11-29 15:45:33 EST

If we did this then the popup menu would have to match and we would then
conflict with other items that use h.  (however there are also possible
conflicts with f as well) I think it might be better to have either no mnemonic
or a duplicate one as you can cycle through them.

The question in this case is what is more popular, Refresh or Open External
File...  because right now f is a strong mnemonic for Refresh and I would hate
to change that and frustrate users in the next release.

Comment 6 Tod Creasey

2004-12-02 09:46:45 EST

Punctuation in general can be a confusing thing - mostly because people are 
not used to it. On top of that punctuation is not in the same place on every 
keyboard (. is an exception - IIRC it is always on the lower keys).

It is worse in a keybinding but I would say a duplicated mnemonic is a better 
idea.

Comment 7 Dani Megert

2008-09-09 06:38:54 EDT

What about using 'O' as mnemonic? That would match the mnemonic used at other places for 'Open'. The only problem would be for people used to open the export wizard via 'o'.

Comment 8 Susan McCourt

2009-07-15 12:06:07 EDT

"As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009"

Comment 9 Dani Megert

2009-07-15 12:18:12 EDT

We won't change this.