Bug 393979 - Opening new windows is no longer smart about the tab placement.
Summary: Opening new windows is no longer smart about the tab placement.
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 388476
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Mac OS X
: P3 minor (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2012-11-09 09:30 EST by Jonathon Roberts CLA
Modified: 2013-11-13 06:15 EST (History)
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Description Jonathon Roberts CLA 2012-11-09 09:30:41 EST 
Here's my best shot at explaining this.

When you have a bunch of tabs open so that the list of open editors appears, opening a new a new editor will put the current editor at the end of the list, removing it from the 6 or so viewable tabs.

Indigo was smart about this and would put the new window in the last open tab that was visible.  I'm not sure about all the use cases but it would always keep the previously opened tab visible, not buried in the dropdown list.

To reproduce:

Open 20 windows or so.
Select the first editor.
While the first editor viewed, open another file previously unopened file.

Expected: the first editor should still be visible as one of the tabs.

JunoBehaviorThatMakesMeSad: The first editor is now only visible in the dropdown list of open tabs.
Comment 1 Thomas Schindl CLA 2012-11-09 09:32:11 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 389169 ***
Comment 2 Paul Webster CLA 2012-11-09 09:33:35 EST 
You can switch to the old MRU behaviour by editing your CSS - http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse4/CSS or switching to the classic theme on Preferences>General>Appearance

PW
Comment 3 Thomas Schindl CLA 2012-11-09 09:34:07 EST 
solution is to switch to the classic theme, install the CSS-Editor and set the mru or install a theme that allows you to customize this (https://github.com/jeeeyul/eclipse-themes)
Comment 4 Dani Megert CLA 2013-11-13 06:15:05 EST 

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