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Bug 15641

Summary: [GlobalActions] Should allow multi-select in "Show View" dialog
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jared Burns <jared_burns>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 Keywords: helpwanted, usability
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux-Motif   
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Description Jared Burns CLA 2002-05-09 12:29:56 EDT 
1. "Perspective->Show View->Other..." to realize the "Show View" dialog.
2. Ctrl+click on a few views to open them. It doesn't work.

We should allow multi-select in this dialog. Whenever I create a Java 
perspective, I want to add almost all of the debug views to it. It's very 
tedious to have to open them one at a time.
Comment 1 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-05-09 17:57:25 EDT 
Agree this would be nice.
Time permitting.
Comment 2 Jared Burns CLA 2002-05-20 11:10:34 EDT 
It looks like this feature has shown up in build 20020519. It's very nice to 
have it. I have one suggestion, though. When multiple views are opened in one 
operation, they should be stacked on top of each other if they don't have a 
placeholder defined in the perspective.

In my case, I'm opening all the debugger views in the Java Perspective and all 
of them but the console are opened on the right. I end up with 5 new views 
open which take up my entire workspace. It would be much cleaner if the views 
were stacked on each other.
Comment 3 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-05-20 12:13:09 EDT 
Probably won't get the chance to do this.
Recommend changing your pref to open views as fast views.
Comment 4 Simon Arsenault CLA 2002-11-15 13:10:42 EST 
As of I20021113 build, they all stack up at the bottom right of the window.