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Bug 347371

Summary:	Perspective buttons in perspective switcher should allow for reordering (by dragging and dropping)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Eugen Paraschiv <hanriseldon>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	aniefer, hanriseldon, jdsalingerjr, Knut.Friedhelm, natros, nobody, pwebster, remy.suen, romeara
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Eugen Paraschiv

2011-05-26 16:39:17 EDT

Build Identifier: I20110524-1000

The view buttons (top right) do not allow drag and drop reordering. This functionality is present in Eclipse 3.x versions. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-05-27 08:06:54 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> The view buttons (top right) do not allow drag and drop reordering.

Please attach screenshots to this bug. I do not know what buttons you are referring to.

Comment 2 Andrew Niefer

2011-05-27 11:00:35 EDT

This could perhaps be the perspective buttons in the top right which I see can be reordered in 3.x

Comment 3 Eugen Paraschiv

2011-05-27 15:25:51 EDT

The buttons I was referring to are indeed the perspective buttons. In Eclipse 3.x their order can be changed by drag and drop, which is no longer the case in Eclipse 4.x.

Comment 4 Remy Suen

2011-05-27 16:06:59 EDT

We probably have an existing bug for this, but anyway...

Comment 5 Nobody - feel free to take it

2012-06-27 05:43:52 EDT

I think this should me moved to platform/ui.

Comment 6 Ulli Hafner

2012-06-28 08:19:29 EDT

This is indeed a big usablity problem. 

1.) A seach box should be the last widget in the top right corner (and not the perspecitive buttons): please have a look at all other applications with a search bar
2.) The top right corner is too far away when navigating with the mouse: such  frequent used buttons should be nearby the typical mouse position (which is typically the top left quadrant). So making the position optional will allow users to move them again to the top left position.

Comment 7 Paul Webster

2012-06-28 09:53:12 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 364046 ***

Comment 8 Eugen Paraschiv

2012-06-28 09:55:53 EDT

Hi, 
Not sure why this is duplicate of bug 364046 - shouldn't it be the other way around? This bug was reported quite a few months before that one, and also there are more people following this one. 
Thanks. 
Eugen.

Comment 9 Paul Webster

2012-06-28 09:59:48 EDT

Because that's where we were discussion possible work-arounds.

PW

Comment 10 Ulli Hafner

2012-06-28 10:20:19 EDT

Ok, seems that I did not read the description carefully. My comment actually is about the fixed horizontal position of the perspective buttons in the top right corner which was configurable in Eclipse 3.x (you could move the buttons to the top left corner with vertical positioning - which is more ergonomically). Is this bug already reported or should I open a new one?

Comment 11 Paul Webster

2012-06-28 11:58:37 EDT

(In reply to comment #10)
> Ok, seems that I did not read the description carefully. My comment actually is
> about the fixed horizontal position of the perspective buttons in the top right
> corner which was configurable in Eclipse 3.x 

That should be bug 340695

PW