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The ShellPool is hardcoded in WorkbenchWindow.configureShell(Shell). Some RCP applications might need to override the current ShellPool settings. For example, our users want to detach many of our views for side-by-side comparisons with other applications. This is not feesible when the detached shells are parented by the WorkbenchWindow shell, since all child windows come to the front when the WorkbenchWindow has focus. Changing one line in WorkbenchWindow to: detachedWindowShells = new ShellPool(null, SWT.SHELL_TRIM); solves the problem. It would be good to allow this to be configurable.
Changing the shell parent affects the widget lifecycle, search order for drag & drop, etc... so making it configurable would make it really hard to keep everything working under all combinations. Configuring the parent pointer is WONTFIX. There is an active PR that requests that detached views always be created as top-level shells, which would give you what you want. It won't be configurable, though. Making the shell style flags RCP-configurable shouldn't be a problem.
There are currently no plans to work on this feature. PW
I'd like to open this again. Being able to minimize various detached views is a pretty hard requirement for things like trading apps. I've been running on a modification that created detached views as top-level shells for some time with no ill effects. Putting this as a property of WorkbenchWindowAdvisor (with appropriate warnings) would allow the application owner to make the decision based on what's best for the application.
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.
