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Detached view do not have minimize/maximize buttons. Why?
Since there's only one stack in a DW there is no need to either maximize or minimize it. What would you expect the behavior to be if the buttons were there?
I guess the idea is if you detaching the view you expect it work as independent window. There is no way to minimize detached view right now.
In Eclipse Luna I20140606-1215 the maximize/restore button in detached windows is present. The minimize button is still missing, indeed. I think however that the main problem with minimization would be that since the detached windows are shown as child windows of the main one (i.e.: no entry in the task bar, except for bugs like bug 227139) once minimized where should those detached windows go?
Please note that with Eclipse Luna 20140612-0600, the minimize function is present, too, when using Linux Mint 16 KDE or Linux Mint 17 MATE. In the former case, the dedicated button on the window title bar is enabled and working. In the latter case, there's no dedicated button, but right clicking on the window title bar and then hitting "Minimize" does the trick. Once minimized the detached windows actually disappear. By activating the main window all detached windows get restored (see also bug 317379 for this). In summary, it seems like Windows is the only desktop environment where the minimize function is not enabled for detached windows (I've not tested on Mac, though).
Maybe I was not clear enough: the contents of comment #3 apply to Windows 7, while those of comment #4 apply to Linux (KDE and MATE desktop environments).
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In Eclipse 2019-06 on Windows 10 the situation is the same.
