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Bug 354698 - [ipad] need way to execute key bindings
Summary: [ipad] need way to execute key bindings
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Orion
Classification: ECD
Component: Editor (show other bugs)
Version: 0.2   Edit
Hardware: Other iOS
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
Depends on: 372652
Blocks: 339427 365361
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Reported: 2011-08-13 23:22 EDT by Silenio Quarti CLA
Modified: 2015-05-05 14:38 EDT (History)
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Description Silenio Quarti CLA 2011-08-13 23:22:58 EDT 
Editing code without all the key bindings is nearly impossible. We should have a button to popup a menu that let us choose a binding to execute.
Comment 1 Susan McCourt CLA 2012-02-10 12:33:57 EST 
should we add this to the "key assist" dialog?
if so then it would need focus.

note that "keyboard help" is now in the user menu so you can get to it without a binding.
Comment 2 Susan McCourt CLA 2012-02-10 12:34:21 EST 
i guess you probably need an editor-only solution too.
Comment 3 Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2012-02-10 13:09:07 EST 
Keyboard Help is now in the User menu? Does that mean you can close bug 349602?
Comment 4 Susan McCourt CLA 2012-02-10 21:33:18 EST 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Keyboard Help is now in the User menu? Does that mean you can close bug 349602?

We can stop worrying about that part of the bug (how to find out about the keybindings without a keybinding) but the rest of the bug was about having keybindings set up for most commands, which we don't right now.
Comment 5 John Arthorne CLA 2012-02-27 15:33:40 EST 
For tablets, I could imagine the key assist dialog having larger buttons for each action, and you just invoke the action by hitting the button directly in that popup. I.e., I don't think a tablet user wants to open a quick reference popup, and then popup the keyboard and attempt to type that in. Just let them click the action directly from key assist. 

Having the key assist in the Options menu is probably still a bit fiddly on the tablet for something you'll need to do alot. The Options menu in its current form is a small target to hit.. although if it was one of those giant "gear" buttons it would probably be ok.
Comment 6 Susan McCourt CLA 2012-04-30 12:32:29 EDT 
My understanding is that we would still need an editor-only solution to this problem, yes?  So that users of the editor outside of Orion have a tablet solution?  Just asking because I think it affects our action API and whether editor should have user facing names for actions (so that it could support this feature).  See bug 377828
Comment 7 Silenio Quarti CLA 2013-06-03 10:46:02 EDT 
Here i is some progress on this area. It is possible to execute the action from the key assist panel now.

http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?id=7d834b182e25881a436bd52da3890f608480080f
Comment 8 John Arthorne CLA 2015-05-05 14:38:44 EDT 
Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html