Bug 393002 - Provide an option to restore the MRU editor tabs visibility policy in e4
Summary: Provide an option to restore the MRU editor tabs visibility policy in e4
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 388476
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 major (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2012-10-28 13:46 EDT by Mauro Molinari CLA
Modified: 2012-10-28 14:58 EDT (History)
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Description Mauro Molinari CLA 2012-10-28 13:46:19 EDT 
I know there's bug #68684 that asks to remove the MRU editor tabs visibility policy in Eclipse.
I also know there was bug #344029 asking to restore it in e4, since it's missing compared to Eclipse 3.x. But the resolution of bug #344029 simply implemented a way to support this at theme level.

But IMHO this is not just a "style" preference, but actually a usability issue.
It's a pain for me to work in Eclipse 4.2.1 because the MRU policy of editor tabs visibility is missing: since I don't have a wide screen and I always end up with dozen editors open, I must continuously jump to the ">>" list of open editors simply to go from one open file to the other and then back and forth. And to fix this, I must change theme, to use the "classic" theme... That is, I must change theme because of a missing core feature. It's hardly acceptable.

Couldn't an option in Eclipse preferences be the way to make all people happy once and for all?
Comment 1 Markus Keller CLA 2012-10-28 14:58:08 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 388476 ***