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Bug 330863 - [context] alt+click should use different keyboard shortcut when clicking whitespace
Summary: [context] alt+click should use different keyboard shortcut when clicking whit...
Status: CLOSED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Mylyn (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Mylyn Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2010-11-22 17:07 EST by Sam Davis CLA
Modified: 2011-07-21 18:14 EDT (History)
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Description Sam Davis CLA 2010-11-22 17:07:12 EST 
Sometimes when I try to alt+click something in the package explorer, I miss and alt+click the whitespace instead, causing everything to be unfiltered, which takes about a second. Then my package explorer is full of things I don't care about and I have to turn filtering off and back on to get back the view I had before. This is very annoying. I think it would better to use ctrl+alt+click for whitespace and just alt+click when clicking on a node.
Comment 1 Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-07-21 18:13:31 EDT 
I am concerned that adding a another key-binding for Alt+click would make it even harder for users to discover this feature. It sounds like there are two problems here:

* Unfiltering the root takes too long: Tracked on bug 267143.
* It's hard to leave Alt+click mode.

Shawn, to address the latter, could we add a binding for the Esc key?
Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST 
Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-mylyn