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Bug 202880 - improve usability and accessibility of the mark/read action
Summary: improve usability and accessibility of the mark/read action
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Mylyn (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC All
: P4 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.0   Edit
Assignee: Steffen Pingel CLA
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Blocks: 211012
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Reported: 2007-09-11 00:32 EDT by Eugene Kuleshov CLA
Modified: 2008-05-14 00:32 EDT (History)
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2007-11-06 18:14 EST, Steffen Pingel CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Eugene Kuleshov CLA 2007-09-11 00:32:13 EDT 
improve usability and accessibility of the mark/read action. Currently it is only available from the 2nd level submenu which don't even have any accelerators, which makes real pain to review large number of incoming changes.
Comment 1 Mik Kersten CLA 2007-09-11 00:56:04 EDT 
Do you have a recommended accelerator you would like?  We can add that right away.
Comment 2 Eugene Kuleshov CLA 2007-09-11 08:50:48 EDT 
Accelerators won't help much if you going to keep the 2nd level menu. Compare to Synchronize view for example, I could use Shift-F10, u or v (or WinMenu, u) to update from CVS.
Comment 3 Mik Kersten CLA 2007-09-11 20:38:00 EDT 
Do you want a key binding for the action in the meantime?  E.g. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R or something shorter if you can come up with a reasonable one that has no conflict.
Comment 4 Eugene Kuleshov CLA 2007-09-11 20:48:00 EDT 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Do you want a key binding for the action in the meantime?  E.g.
> Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R or something shorter if you can come up with a reasonable one
> that has no conflict.

That would be better then nothing, but can you please create binding context for the Task List and use 2 key shortcuts that would work only in the Task List? I.e. Ctrl-R, or maybe something that email apps are using.
Comment 5 Steffen Pingel CLA 2007-11-06 17:08:11 EST 
Eugene, has this been addressed as part of bug 205886 or is there anything left to do here?
Comment 6 Eugene Kuleshov CLA 2007-11-06 17:31:35 EST 
Almost. Need to add accelerators to the popup menu - "&Mark..."
Comment 7 Steffen Pingel CLA 2007-11-06 18:12:51 EST 
Adding accelarators is trivial, but it seems unconsistent if these are only added for these particular actions. Mik, what are your thoughts on this?
Comment 8 Steffen Pingel CLA 2007-11-06 18:14:46 EST 
Created attachment 82279 [details]
mylyn/context/zip
Comment 9 Mik Kersten CLA 2007-11-09 22:19:08 EST 
I can't get accelerator underlines to appear for context menus on Eclipse in Vista. Do these show in XP?
Comment 10 Eugene Kuleshov CLA 2007-11-10 00:33:20 EST 
 (In reply to comment #9)
> I can't get accelerator underlines to appear for context menus on Eclipse in
> Vista. Do these show in XP?

Of course they are. There is a flag in XP themes configuration like "show accelerators only when Alt is pressed", I have it disabled.
Comment 11 Mik Kersten CLA 2008-05-13 13:57:56 EDT 
We've addressed this via the Alt+R and Alt+U keyboard actions.  No further plans to change the accelerators, but we can consider menu changes on bug 211012.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 205886 ***
Comment 12 Eugene Kuleshov CLA 2008-05-13 16:31:04 EDT 
Mik, Alt-R is a major usability issue because it is a conflicting shortcut with the main "Run" menu, this really need to be fixed, because right now Alt-R is not working for Run menu even when Task List view is not in focus.
Comment 13 Mik Kersten CLA 2008-05-13 16:59:24 EDT 
Can you propose a better shortcut?
Comment 14 Eugene Kuleshov CLA 2008-05-13 17:08:57 EDT 
(In reply to comment #13)
> Can you propose a better shortcut? 

I probably could. But even if I couldn't, it still should break standard platform shortcuts.
Comment 15 Steffen Pingel CLA 2008-05-14 00:32:40 EDT 
New key-bindings (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/UI_Nits#Keybindings):

 Alt + Shift + R    mark as read 
 Alt + Shift + U    mark as unread