Your Action is My Command
Developer Track · Long Talk
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Douglas Pollock

Commands are the new mechanism in 3.2 for key bindings and contributing to the
menus, tool bars and status line. This talk will explain what commands are,
and how to use them. The key binding architecture will be explained, as well
as how to contribute commands to the menus. If time permits, a short example
migration from actions to commands will be shown.
Doug started working on Eclipse just after 2.1 had shipped. He works on the Platform UI team, and is generally responsible for commands, contexts, contributions, coolbar, editor management and key bindings. Doug is best identified by his huge Alienware laptop (see photo) running Gentoo.