Bug 81037

Summary: [Commands] [ViewMgmt] Alt-Shift-Q, C and secondary views
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Darin Swanson <Darin_Swanson>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: cocoakevin, remy.suen
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Darin Swanson CLA 2004-12-14 18:56:20 EST 
If you close the primary console (if you remember which one that is :-) ), Alt-
Shift-Q, C will open a new console instead of going to one of the previously 
opened secondary consoles. This seems somewhat strange to me.
Comment 1 Darin Wright CLA 2004-12-15 10:25:19 EST 
This is because the open view action/shortcuts are based on view ids. Since 
the view ids for secondary consoles are different, another one is opened. Not 
much we can do about this.

Currently marking as later (not critical).
Comment 2 Kevin Barnes CLA 2004-12-15 10:29:57 EST 
Window/Show View does the same thing. Workbench controls these actions.
Comment 3 Darin Wright CLA 2004-12-15 10:34:13 EST 
Moving to UI for consideration.
Comment 4 Darin Wright CLA 2004-12-15 10:35:15 EST 
When a show view command is invoked, it should likely show any view with the 
same primary id before opening a new view (i.e. ignore secondary id?).
Comment 5 Nick Edgar CLA 2004-12-15 13:07:21 EST 
Can you clarify the notion of primary vs. secondary consoles, and explain how
the console uses secondary ids?  I'm not aware of how the console uses
multi-instance views (and are there other places in Debug where these are used?)

It's unclear to me that showing any other instance is what users expect.  I
think it depends on the scenario.  E.g. LWP uses multi-instance views to show
documents, so picking one at random is probably not what they would want.

Maybe you could spec out in detail how you'd like the multi-instance view
scenario to work from an end-user's perspective.
Comment 6 Nick Edgar CLA 2006-03-15 13:28:02 EST 
Reassigning bugs in component areas that are changing ownership.
Comment 7 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-11 17:32:49 EST 
Remy is now responsible for watching the [ViewMgmt] category.
Comment 8 Remy Suen CLA 2010-12-15 07:51:38 EST 
Prakash, I noticed you fixed bug 221172. The use case here isn't covered by your recent changes.
Comment 9 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2010-12-16 01:58:46 EST 
Will investigate this.
Comment 10 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 15:38:25 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.