Bug 135222

Summary:	[PerspectiveBar] Add "Open In New Window" context menu to Perspective-Switcher
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Andy Pahne <anpa>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	graham.mcdermott
Version:	3.2	Keywords:	bugday
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
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Description Andy Pahne

2006-04-06 04:40:25 EDT

It would be really nice, if I could open another perspective by clicking on a "Open In New Window" context menu item on the perspective icons 

At the moment I need to open the preferences dialogue and adjust the setting on how another perspective is opened. 

I hope, I categorized my feature request correctly (Platform, UI).

Comment 1 Graham McDermott

2014-05-31 09:59:55 EDT

Which perspective icons are you referring to?
1. the ones on the Window->Open Perspective menu?
2. the ones in the "Open Perspective" dialogue?
3. the ones on the Perspective Switcher? (which already have a context menu this could be appended to)

My recommendations:

Forget 1. Having a context menu on a menu item doesn't make sense.

for 2 - the preference could be displayed on the dialogue in some modifiable control - perhaps as two radio buttons. This would allow you to see what the preference is, and then modify it if you wish to. 

3. is easy to achieve - I have code for this that adds a context menu item that will open the selected perspective in a new window. However it only lets you modify the behaviour for perspectives that you already have open. I will commit this change for review.

Comment 2 Graham McDermott

2014-05-31 10:08:08 EDT

I just read the title of the feature request - 3. was what was requested there. However I suggest that 2. would be a better solution to the issue described in the feature description.