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Bug 317379

Summary: [DetachedView] [Presentations] All detached views pop up when user clicks on only one of the detached views or main window
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Chaos <chaos.wargame>
Component: IDEAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: Lars.Vogel, mauromol, remy.suen
Version: 3.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Chaos CLA 2010-06-20 03:35:55 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20100218-1602

I would like to raise out an enhancement request that user has an options to choose whether all detached views pop up or not when user clicks on only one of the detached view or main windows.

In many use cases of eclipse IDE in multiple monitors, developer often uses detached views to expand the "IDE region" to different monitors. E.g. 1st monitor has the main editor and 2nd monitor has the detached views with Console, Package Explorers, Problems. Also, developer often open a separate web-browser (e.g. chrome) or document reader (e.g. pdf reader) to read some contents in 2nd monitor. There will be a problem that those detached views overlap other application windows when developer works on the IDE main window. Therefore, developer cannot work on IDE and read the browser at the same time. Actually, I would like to see that Eclipse IDE can combine the docking mode and the multi-window mode (like gimp).

Thanks

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Eric Moffatt CLA 2013-06-21 10:52:05 EDT 
Hmm, it might be time to re-visit this now that we have Eclipse 4...
Comment 2 Mauro Molinari CLA 2014-08-08 09:21:03 EDT 
This enhancement request is still valid for Eclipse Luna I20140606-1215.
Right now, as soon as you click on the main window or on any detached window, all the Eclipse windows are brought to front.
Comment 3 Mauro Molinari CLA 2014-08-08 09:22:25 EDT 
Also, I was not able to find any option to change this behaviour.
Comment 4 Mauro Molinari CLA 2014-08-08 10:17:30 EDT 
I think bug 334331 gives a more comprehensive idea on what detached windows management may look like. See bug #334331 comment #8.
So I think this may be closed as a duplicate.
Comment 5 Lars Vogel CLA 2014-08-18 11:31:38 EDT 
Thanks Mauro for the analysis.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 334331 ***