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JDK 7, Ocean, Ubuntu. There is an ongoing problem with keyboard usage in the presence of specialty windows (i.e. not the editor or explorer views): they capture all sorts of keystrokes that you would want to send to the app globally, sometimes even when the window does not have focus. I am not sure to what extent this is a problem in Swing vs. NetBeans. Examples: 1. With a Bugzilla issue open and fronted, it is impossible to do much of anything from the keyboard, such as access the main menu bar using mnemonics. If you press Alt-F intending to open the File menu, the Platform field in the bug form gets focus instead. You _can_ use Ctrl-1 to open and focus the Projects tab, but Alt-F still focuses the Platform field - without the bug window being displayed as focused. The only workaround (without using the mouse) is to open Projects, find some random file, and open that file (or use Ctrl-TAB if you already had some files open); once the bug window is hidden, all is normal. 2. Open a heap dump and run some analysis in the Analysis tab, and click on some part of the results text. Now try to open a project mentioned in the analysis using Ctrl-Shift-O. Rather than open the Open Project dialog, the results are right-justified or toggled back to left justification if you try it again. (No idea why.) In this case it does suffice to focus another window.
(In reply to comment #0) > JDK 7, Ocean, Ubuntu. There is an ongoing problem with keyboard usage in the > presence of specialty windows (i.e. not the editor or explorer views): they > capture all sorts of keystrokes that you would want to send to the app > globally, sometimes even when the window does not have focus. I am not sure to > what extent this is a problem in Swing vs. NetBeans. Examples: > > 1. With a Bugzilla issue open and fronted, it is impossible to do much of > anything from the keyboard, such as access the main menu bar using mnemonics. > If you press Alt-F intending to open the File menu, the Platform field in the > bug form gets focus instead. You _can_ use Ctrl-1 to open and focus the > Projects tab, but Alt-F still focuses the Platform field - without the bug > window being displayed as focused. The only workaround (without using the > mouse) is to open Projects, find some random file, and open that file (or use > Ctrl-TAB if you already had some files open); once the bug window is hidden, > all is normal. I filed bug #212157 > > 2. Open a heap dump and run some analysis in the Analysis tab, and click on > some part of the results text. Now try to open a project mentioned in the > analysis using Ctrl-Shift-O. Rather than open the Open Project dialog, the > results are right-justified or toggled back to left justification if you try it > again. (No idea why.) In this case it does suffice to focus another window. I found this in BasicLookAndFeel for FormattedTextField: "control shift O", "toggle-componentOrientation", So it seems that single shortcut is reserved for changing the component orientation. We could remove this key binding from L&F default but I don't think it's worth messing with it. Please reopen if you disagree, thanks.