Bug 59775

Summary: [EditorMgmt] Stacked fully displayed and sorted editor tabs
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Charles-Philip Bentley <mordan9>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: lend0104, rehak.michal, ron
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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row layout screenshot from JBuilder none

Description Charles-Philip Bentley CLA 2004-04-23 08:21:32 EDT 
Hi, I have heard Netbeans is getting sorted editor tabs. Ironically it was one 
thing that decided me to switch to Eclipse. 

To the point: For people like me who like visually organized stuff, I would 
like to have an option to sort the editor tabs and that tabs stack up like in 
Netbeans.

I find it really more efficient to see the full file names (many files only 
change in suffixes) (with option to display or not .java and .class) and have 
them stacking up. 

Stacked tabs were bulky in Netbeans because tabs were not sorted. 

I would love to see that in Eclipse.
Comment 1 stewarts CLA 2004-11-04 13:27:52 EST 
Yes.  Rows of tabs, pleeeeeeeeeeease!
Comment 2 Ron Levasseur CLA 2005-05-26 02:35:11 EDT 
The lack of stacked tabs is the biggest usability issue with Eclipse.  As of
Eclipse 3.0, I can no longer order tabs.  When I select a hidden tab from the
right menu, the leftmost tab changes. Frustrating.
Comment 3 Boris Bokowski CLA 2007-05-10 13:41:22 EDT 
*** Bug 186157 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Missing name Missing name CLA 2007-10-30 10:14:24 EDT 
Created attachment 81583 [details]
row layout screenshot from JBuilder

Here is an example of row layout taken from an old version of JBuilder.
Please note all the useful option in the preference dialog.
I found it very effective and I suggest to take it in consideration.
Comment 5 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-07-09 19:04:28 EDT 
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
Comment 6 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-17 13:03:05 EST 
Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.
Comment 7 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:10:53 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.