Bug 153791

Summary:	[RCP] Support for a dedicated periphery area of the window
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Matthew Hatem <Matthew_Hatem>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	cgross, n.a.edgar
Version:	3.2	Keywords:	helpwanted, needinfo
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Matthew Hatem

2006-08-14 13:27:25 EDT

We need support for a dedicated periphery (or sidebar) section of the workbench window.  The interactions for this area are very similar to other sidebar interfaces such as Google sidebar.  In our product we have implemented a feature like this.  We use standard Eclipse View parts as the primary programming model for contributing parts to this dedicated area.  In doing so we needed to use Eclipse internals to create and provide services for the view parts.  

We think this is something Eclipse should support moving forward.  The "sticky view" feature does not satisfy this requirement however one possible solution could be to enhance the sticky view feature to work more like a side bar interface.

Comment 1 Boris Bokowski

2006-08-15 11:37:18 EDT

Matt, would you be able to come up with a proposal for this?

Comment 2 Matthew Hatem

2006-08-15 11:47:23 EDT

Yes, I can provide a complete design proposal for this and contribute code.

Comment 3 Nick Edgar

2006-08-23 10:13:45 EDT

Boris, I suggest talking to Kevin H about this one.  I believe there are other IBM products that would prefer the sidebar-style of interaction than either sticky views or fast views.

Comment 4 Nick Edgar

2006-08-23 10:16:49 EDT

Should also sort out how this relates to bug 88239 (Matt, if you're not looking at that one for 3.3, you should probably reassign it to Platform-UI-Inbox).

Comment 5 Kevin McGuire

2007-06-22 10:45:01 EDT

Marking as needinfo since Matt was to provide a proposal (if we received it, please note in this bug report).

Comment 6 Boris Bokowski

2009-11-26 16:15:33 EST

Prakash is now responsible for watching bugs in the [RCP] component area.

Comment 7 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 15:36:10 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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