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Bug 209312

Summary: [Trim] Ability To Detach Editors
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: alan flisch <alan.flisch>
Component: UIAssignee: Eric Moffatt <emoffatt>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert, lesojones
Version: 3.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description alan flisch CLA 2007-11-09 03:54:32 EST 
Nearly all panels can be detached and moved about except editors and this is something I would really find of benefit.  I use two monitors generally and often want to look at two (or sometimes more) editor views simultaneously so being able to detach one and move it to the second monitor while working on the other would be of great help.
Comment 1 Les Jones CLA 2007-11-09 04:56:17 EST 
FWIW: A workaround I've seen used is to expand eclipse to cover the area of both monitors (not maximised, but resized) and then have editors side by side within the Eclipse workbench window.

Although, not a solution, might help you in the short term - assuming you'd not been doing that already ;-)
Comment 2 alan flisch CLA 2007-11-09 05:14:44 EST 
Good idea, I'm sure it may help others who might stumble on this report, but my monitors are different resolutions and sizes - a laptop + an additional monitor - so it looks a bit weird.
Comment 3 Eric Moffatt CLA 2007-11-09 13:27:15 EST 
You can achieve the same effect by using the "Window > New Window" which will open a second WorkbenchWindow onto the current perspective. Both windows will have their own Editor Areas and you can place them on different monitors...

Trying to mash the current Detached Window code into handling Editors would entail taking along so much of the Commands management infrastructure that by the time we're done it'd effectively -be- a new workbench window anyway.
Comment 4 Dani Megert CLA 2008-01-31 11:21:16 EST 
Really a dup of bug 8886.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8886 ***