Bug 533508

Summary:

The window that holds the view-tabs should Minimize to the nearest corner - instead of going to some random corner

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

chidveer chinthakuntla <chidveer>

Component:

Assignee:

Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>

Status:

NEW ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

Version:

4.7.3

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows 10

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Description	Flags
screenshot before minimizing any windows in the bottom and left	none
screenshot after minimizing the windows.	none

Description chidveer chinthakuntla

2018-04-12 10:45:42 EDT

When i click on "minimize the window" that holds the various views like (Terminal, Tasks etc,.) should minimize to the bottom instead of minimizing to the left corner.
The screenshot also includes that - Debug view is minimizing to the left corner.
It will help the user experience, if the views minimize to their respective corners - So that, i don't have search for "where is the window (i just minimized)".
If there are multiple windows minimized to the same corner - i don't have to search for the one i need(Left corner of the screenshot have my 1. Tasks window and 2. Outline windows, squeezed next to each other).

To better refer to my explanation - Something like Intellij, minimizes its windows (its better because its more obvious to the user and they don't have to think about - where did my window go) 


-- Configuration Details --
Product: Eclipse 4.7.3.20180308-1800 (org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product)Installed Features:
 org.eclipse.platform 4.7.3.v20180301-0715

Comment 1 chidveer chinthakuntla

2018-04-12 10:57:57 EDT

Created attachment 273566 [details]
screenshot before minimizing any windows in the bottom and left

Comment 2 chidveer chinthakuntla

2018-04-12 10:59:37 EDT

Created attachment 273567 [details]
screenshot after minimizing the windows.

Debug window went to left corner.
Outline and other view windows squeezed to right corner.

Comment 3 chidveer chinthakuntla

2018-04-12 11:06:11 EDT

Just saw that we can drag and drop the minimized windows but, it would have been more intuitive - if it was done for more me by the IDE (or) give a pop-balloon saying, i can do soo.