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Comment on Editors view: The view should have a "V"-Button on its action bar w/ "Show Full Names", "Sort", "Show Editors from..." to be consistent w/ the other views. Under "Show Editors from..."there would be: "All Windows" and "Current Window" Under "Sort" there would be "by Name" and "by Most Recently Used". Consistency: Tasks view uses "&Sort" and each entry prefixed w/ "by" ... so either adopt it in Editors view or change Tasks view to use "Sort &by" (preferred). A pushbutton for "Show Full Names" would be convenient. What about a menu item "Show in New Window"? -- Or "Open in Perspective ..." Comment on Tabs: I find it inconvenient to click on a tab and than move the mouse all over to the right side to click on "x" there -- having an "x" on each tab is more convenient IMO. Without the "x" the active label looks a little weird because of its gradient fill. Bug: If you have lots of Editors open and have a maximized Window the "<"/">"-buttons are not shown under certain circumstances (doesn't happen when window is not maximized). There is an extra space right of the scrollbar, is this intended? See attached screenshot. @@@@ Nice work guys! -- Way better than the clumsy dialog.
Created attachment 2626 [details] showing the extra space, missing V-Button and missing < > buttons
Created attachment 2628 [details] showing the difference w/ < > buttons
You can ctrl-click on a specific tab to close it. You can change the amount of tab compression on the editors preference page (windows>preferences>workbench>editors). The extra space right of the scrollbar, is not intended. The <> arrows do not show up until they are required. I will verify the algorithm calculating the size of the <> buttons (and two new images) is correct. The view is work in progress, your comments are appreciated.
The 'extra space' beside the right scroll bar is the 'overview ruler'. It can be turned off by the preference page windows>preferences>java>editor>appearance>show overview ruler It has been active for a while. You may have noticed it when you have a compile error in the file, this ruler allows you to move quickly to the next compile error.
{rotfl} I'm using it all the time :)
The Ctrl + click to close the tabs is great too ... but unfortunately there is no hint. I wonder how other users will find out about it ...
The < > only vanish when you set compression to high.
Also: If you click on a compressed tab at the right the tabs should be scrolled so that the complete tab is visible.
In reference to comment #7 I have no issues with the left/right scroll appearing/disappearing with the various compression settings. Then scrolls are only enabled if required. Perhaps the set of editors you are using is not sufficient to illustrate the problem. I tried it with 30 editors open, the scrolling was fine. In reference to comment #8 bug #27167 has been raised to look at this issue.
I really hope that these changes are a mistake. I have very few problems with the current editor management and don't want to loose the features of the 'X' being on each tab. My preferences set the number of open editors to a low value of 5-6 depending on what will fit on the screen without scrolling and scrunching. This provides what I consider to be a manageable number of open editors. Combined with the new navigation history features, I am able to quickly bounce back and forth between the elements I need to work with. I really like being able to close the tabs by simpling mousing over the 'X' and closing. I don't want to have to hold down the CTRL key to do this. It also doesn't logically fit. Normally holding CTRL allows for multiple selections. Other editor enhancements deal with selecting multiple editors and performing an action on all of them - close, save, etc. Given those changes, I would expect that holding CTRL and clicking on editor tabs would select multiple editors not close each one clicked. The positioning of the new 'X' at the end of the editor tabs is a poor place to put it. Please scrap it and put it back on the individual tabs. I am ok with the drop down arrow to bring up the editor list and the side to side (< >) arrows for scrolling through the tabs. These really wouldn't effect my prefered way of dealing with editors. I have never used the current editor list other than out of curiosity after reading about it in the news group. And the <> arrows appear to only show up if you exceede the number of tabs that can fit on the screen. I love Eclipse. Please don't make it difficult to use.
Eclipse 20021213 The closebox (X) has been put back on the individual tabs, and removed from the far right of the tab area. In addition the pulldown menu has been made optional, the default is off (traditional behaviour). To change the default values go to Window>Preferences>Workbench>Editors The view was meant to have the same look & feel as the dropDown list. Lowering the serverity of this PR to keep track of view suggestions/enhancements. The other issues raised in the bug have been addressed.
There are no plans for the UI team to work on this defect until higher priority items are addressed. If you would like to work on a fix for this enhancement, please let us know on the platform-ui-dev mailing list.
Nothing has survived from the new editor managing :/ I liked the drop-down box :) Marking closed bug is obsolete.
Ment: Closing bug as it is obsolete =D
