Announcing Ergo!
Ever wanted to know what the keybindings are for the most frequently used menu actions? Look no further…
Ergo will provide exactly what you’re looking for! As you use Eclipse, Ergo will watch your every move, recording how often you use actions and whether you invoked them from a menu or keybinding. You can even sort the columns in Ergo’s view!!
All you need is Eclipse 3.4 M3 or later, and install the plugin using this update site:
http://www.stateofflow.com/UpdateSite
Your days of wondering what keybindings to use are over.
If you have any problems please contact Channing.
Do you also count invocations through Quick Access (Ctrl-3)?
Hi Boris,
yes it does count quick access invocations. It monitors all actions whether they come from menus or keys.
I intend to add some filtering if people find the plugin useful since there are some actions which aren’t too interesting (copy, paste, save, etc).
Channing
Looks interesting, I’ll give it a try. Thanks Channing.
Hi Channing,
This is very interesting, for two reasons: First, this seems to be an easy way to gather usage data, which would help improving the UI (remove unused actions, make highly used actions more easy to invoke etc.) All we need for that would be something like an “export” option, correct?
Second, it would be interesting to integrate this functionality into QuickAccess. You would lose the ability to sort, but showing key bindings (and being able to assign key bindings) is something I would like to see in QuickAccess.
Would you be interested in contributing (parts of?) this to Platform UI in some form?
Hi Boris,
I’d be very interested in helping out. What do I need to do?
Channing