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Bug 14369

Summary:	[View Mgmt] View Locks To Prevent Views from being Moved
Product:	[Eclipse Project] e4	Reporter:	Simon Archer <sja.eclipse>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <e4.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	avner.at.bugzilla, knut_radloff, marco, remy.suen, Tod_Creasey
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Simon Archer

2002-04-22 18:13:38 EDT

It's still too easy to accidentally move a view.

A preference to lock/unlock all views to prevent/allow them from being moved or 
undocked accidentally would be useful.  It should be possible to override  
locked view by a keyboard shortcut, such as holding down the ALT key whilst 
moving the view.

View locks should probably not affect resizing of views.

Comment 1 Nick Edgar

2002-04-27 21:09:21 EDT

Defer for consideration in v3.

Comment 2 Randy Giffen

2002-08-09 16:30:32 EDT

Reopen to investigate

Comment 3 Tod Creasey

2006-06-22 08:34:14 EDT

There are currently no plans to work on this feature

Comment 4 Avner Linder

2010-08-16 02:30:00 EDT

this is a major issue with eclipse.
one of the main drawbacks compared to other IDEs, mainly intelliJ.

it is really counter productive to accidentally drag-and-drop a view and then waste my time restoring my layout, especially when a bunch of views are moved at once.

the request is:
1) an option lock the views - can't be moved using drag & drop, but can be minimized/restored

2) an option to undo view movement (using Ctrl-Z, or Windows -> Undo Move View, or whatever you see fit)

Comment 5 Paul Webster

2010-08-16 09:19:37 EDT

We are re-working the perspectives with an EMF model in e4 and can probably look at this enhancement there.

We would accept patches for 3.7 but won't actively look at this in that stream.

PW

Comment 6 Marco Descher

2013-01-22 08:28:22 EST

Remark E4: The DnDAddon defines the "NoMove" tag for a part in PartDragAgent. If it is set, drag and drop is defered.

Comment 7 Lars Vogel

2019-11-27 07:22:35 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got
resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some
reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it.
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