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Bug 320301

Summary:	Editors can be detached onto a detached view
Product:	[Eclipse Project] e4	Reporter:	Remy Suen <remy.suen>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <e4.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	deepakazad, sebastien.schneider, xufengbing
Version:	1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Remy Suen

2010-07-19 13:35:51 EDT

By default, you cannot drag an editor outside the workbench window to create a detached window. However, once you detach a view, you _can_ drag an editor into that new window. This seems inconsistent.

Comment 1 Sebastien Schneider

2010-07-29 10:10:57 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> By default, you cannot drag an editor outside the workbench window to create a
> detached window. However, once you detach a view, you _can_ drag an editor into
> that new window. This seems inconsistent.

but isn't it a good thing relatively to #20095 and #46565 bugs ?

In my case, I would like to have a way to pop out editors from the workbench window as for views :)

Comment 2 Remy Suen

2010-07-29 10:45:41 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> In my case, I would like to have a way to pop out editors from the workbench
> window as for views :)

Frankly, I don't really care whether editors get be dragged out or not. I just want the behaviour to be consistent. Right now, it is not. ;)

Comment 3 Ben Xu

2010-10-07 05:02:26 EDT

We also suffer a lot from the editor that can not be detached.

We build huge and complex software, that even two big monitor is even not enough to show needed view/editor together (our customer also use different Linux desktop to manage these view/editor with multi monitor)

When designing our UI, from basic principle , some components need to be designed as a eclipse editor. But as editor can not detached, we use view for workaround. 

OF course, a new workbench window can be used, but it is just some workaround, and not good workaround.

I believe many other users has the same problem when their product is large and complex enough. 

Strongly request to provide a detachable editor!

Comment 4 Deepak Azad

2011-02-04 14:21:51 EST

This can probably be closed.

Comment 5 Remy Suen

2011-02-04 14:24:43 EST

(In reply to comment #4)
> This can probably be closed.

Yes. Thanks for the ping, Deepak.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 309447 ***