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In e4, applications will have the flexibility to have multiple editor areas, to mix views and editors, etc. If editors aren't "special" anymore (they can live in stacks with views), should we consider putting editor toolbar contributions in a local toolbar rather than in the main menu bar? How would an application specify what should happen to editor actions? If we have a local toolbar for editors, one would expect it to reside underneath the tab. In the 3.x stream, view toolbars are placed in the empty area to the right of the tabs unless they don't fit, in which case they are moved below. Would we put all local toolbars underneath the tab for consistency? Also note that a local editor toolbar needs to coexist nicely with the existing editor breadcrumb bar.
> should we consider putting editor toolbar contributions in a local toolbar rather than in the main menu bar? I don't like this at all. Especially on the Mac there is a very definite expectation of where things go. The current way allows you to choose whether toolbar contributions are local or on the main toolbar and I think it needs to stay that way. Right now there is only one editor area, but multiple editors can be open. Only one is visible at a time and that is the active editor. Editor Menu and toolbar contributions appear and disappear based on which editor is active. As we add multiple editor areas we can keep the concept of a single active editor through focus assignment.
*** Bug 156766 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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