Bug 176746

Summary: [ViewMgmt] Allow perspective folders with multi-instance view placeholders to act like a tabbed browser
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Mark Powell <Mark.Powell>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: bpasero, pwebster, tom.schindl
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Mark Powell CLA 2007-03-08 14:58:05 EST 
In my RCP application we use several perspectives and want to continue to use perspectives for editors and views and so forth.  However, we would like one of our perspectives to behave like a tabbed web browser like MSIE or Firefox.  We are able to specify a folder with a placeholder to get a particular ViewPart, and let the user open multiple instances of the view in the folder, which is great.  We can set the ViewParts to be closeable, which is great except that when you close the last view in the folder, the workbench reallocates the folder space back to the other WorkbenchParts.

What we would like would be a way to either make the last view not closeable, or to let the folder area remain where it is and not be consumed in favor of the other WorkbenchParts.  Our strong preference would be the former, as that would produce a behavior quite similar to Firefox or IE.

You'll probably ask "why not use EditorPart, since that's how they work?", to which my answer is that we're already using an EditorPart for something critically important, and the 1-editor-area-per-perspective prevents us from doing this.  We need this tabbed-browser area to be visible next to the editor, therefore we are trying to do this with ViewParts.
Comment 1 Mark Powell CLA 2007-03-13 16:23:29 EDT 
Boris,

FYI I am investigating the possibility of my organization allowing me to contribute to this feature. The current answer I have is "no you may not", but I'm pushing to see if this can be changed.

Mark
Comment 2 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-11 17:30:39 EST 
Remy is now responsible for watching the [ViewMgmt] category.
Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:04:02 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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.