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I've just had to "redo" a perspective the way I want it (for reasonable reasons) and I've run into the same problem I always have. I wish to have the search/console/tasks bar along the whole bottom width of Eclipse. I should (I think) be able to do this by dragging a view over the status bar and getting an "up" arrow to say I want it to be above the status bar. Unfortunately, I can't do that - I have to put everything vertically so that *everything* is the full width, get the tasks/console/search in the right place and then reorganise the rest. Have I missed something, or is this genuinely missing functionality? (The same goes for the top, left and right as well - getting anything that takes up a whole side is basically a pain.)
This would help with the usuability of the product.
*** Bug 50910 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 7802 [details] Fix for this defect This includes a patch for the org.eclipse.ui.workbench project and a patch for the Geometry class in org.eclipse.jface.util. Due to a bug in the "create patch" feature, the workbench patch is missing one change to PageLayout.java. I have also included the full source (my change is a new function called swtConstantToLayoutPosition at the end of the file -- just paste that into PageLayout.java and you should be good). I have also included the full source for TrimDropTarget.java (where most of the change happened), just in case CVS gets out of sync between now and when the patch gets committed.
Kim, can you commit this?
Committed patch.
Great. Flagging as fixed.
