Bug 472619

Description Stephan Herrmann 2015-07-14 09:15:25 EDT

With multiple monitors being a common setup for many people, perspectives are less useful when the configuration of monitors is changed.

Example: in the office I have two large monitors attached to a notebook. I configure perspectives to leverage the space on both monitors. When travelling both monitors are disconnected and I'm left with the single smaller notebook display.

I seem to have two options:

(1) modify the built-in perspectives, resulting in layouts that are unusable when using the notebook standalone (in addition to changes in size I can only work with one of two windows at a time).

(2) create new perspectives for the dual monitor setting, but then actions like break point hit during debugging or Team > Synchronize will open the wrong perspective in one of the two environments.

I imagine that ideally perspectives would support variants per geometry, so I can configure different layouts for - say - Debug, depending on the monitors attached. Perhaps this could be achieved without any new options/buttons: just let "Save Perspective As..." store layout modifications only for the current geometry.

Additionally, such feature would allow to ship eclipse with different perspective layouts for single vs. dual monitor layouts etc, thus resolving some contention about preferred layouts. We'd just need to decide what are the "patterns" of geometry used for matching default layouts against the actual geometry: only match the number of monitors? Match small vs. large screens? Match wide screen vs. 4:5?


This is also related to the "Presentation Mode" that was temporarily available during 4.5 milestones.