Comment 1 Eric Moffatt 2010-05-25 10:53:07 EDT

My current thoughts are to have it behave like the DnD behavior used in 3.6 to move minimized stacks around...

Comment 2 Eric Moffatt 2010-06-10 10:49:25 EDT

Created attachment 171642 [details]
Patch to right align the perspective switcher


This approach changes the layout (for the TOP trim only for now) to allow for MToolControl's with the tag 'stretch' to be added into the TrimBar. These controls will take up all the 'leftover' space on a trim line (meaning that anything after the spacer will appear to the right.

Had to change the minimize addon to ensure that minimized stacks get placed before the PerspectiveSpacer.

Also contains a fix to the MinMaxAddon to address the removal of minimized stacks if the perspective is removed.

Comment 3 Dani Megert 2010-06-17 11:13:01 EDT

Regarding Eclipse SDK 4.0 not being able to dock the switcher where I want is a blocker for me.

Comment 4 Eric Moffatt 2010-06-17 15:12:25 EDT

The main issue with this is the great amount of effort Bogdan/Susan/Linda have put into polishing this for the location that it's expected to be at. From the modeling side it isn't likely too difficult to provide it a 'Dock on left'...

The issue will be in how it will 'paint' in the new orientation...

Comment 5 Eric Moffatt 2010-06-21 12:56:01 EDT

I personally don't see this as a 'stop ship' issue but would be interested in what others have to say...

Comment 6 John Arthorne 2010-06-22 13:48:22 EDT

(In reply to comment #5)
> I personally don't see this as a 'stop ship' issue but would be interested in
> what others have to say...

I agree. It would be nice to have, but compared to the rest of our list of outstanding problems it's relatively minor. I don't think we have the cycles to iterate this with the designers and come up with a vertical orientation in the time we have left.

Comment 7 Boris Bokowski 2010-07-15 09:21:07 EDT

I think Bogdan wanted to take a stab at this.

Comment 8 Boris Bokowski 2010-07-15 11:11:55 EDT

We talked about this issue on today's e4 dev call and said that we would probably not have enough time to do anything for 4.0 unfortunately.

Comment 9 Boris Bokowski 2010-07-15 11:13:26 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> Regarding Eclipse SDK 4.0 not being able to dock the switcher where I want is a
> blocker for me.

Dani, would this be a blocker just for you personally, or do you think it would prevent us shipping the Eclipse 4.0 SDK? If the latter, you should talk to McQ about it and make a PMC level decision. Thanks!

Comment 10 Dani Megert 2010-07-20 11:36:09 EDT

>Dani, would this be a blocker just for you personally, or do you think it would
>prevent us shipping the Eclipse 4.0 SDK? 
I was too aggressive on this one. It's a major inconvenience if one has to click at a different location to switch perspectives but it's not a stop ship.

Comment 11 Remy Suen 2012-03-26 08:41:08 EDT

*** Bug 375119 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Paul Webster 2012-07-17 11:26:43 EDT

*** Bug 385247 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Martin Dubeau 2012-07-17 12:06:11 EDT

This bug is 2 years old, any chance it will be planned sometime soon ?  I just upgraded to 4.2 and I find the removal of the "dock on left" feature very annoying, to say the least.

Comment 14 Eric Moffatt 2012-07-17 13:57:30 EDT

I'm literally in the process of fleshing out the 'trim dragging' story. It'll be available soon (maybe even the next I-Build). This needed to be folded into a more complete picture that includes the ability to drag the top toolbars as well as selected parts of the bottom trim, not just allowing the PS to be docked on the left.

Note that the plan is to allow you to DnD the switcher to wherever you want, making the 'dock on left' menu item no longer necessary.

Comment 15 Eric Moffatt 2012-07-17 13:59:05 EDT

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 340695 ***