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Eclipse 3.x allowed to detach an editor / view via the context menu on the tab. Our of my customer uses this in his 3.x RCP application. I suggest we also add it back to the tab menu. I think it is relatively useful.
Dani, Mickael, Andrey, WDYT?
I'm OK. Not that I ever needed this, but if someone wants to implement it - why not?
I think it'd be useful to get a command (and context-menu, and even maybe even a "Detach current view" in the Window menu) to achieve that. AFAIK, there is no way to do this without drag n drop at the moment, nothing refers to it in shortcuts preference page nor in Ctrl+3. Lack of keyboard-only workflow to perform this action can be perceived as a bug, and your proposal is part of a viable solution.
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/121312
Does this new action appear in the Ctrl+3 search?
(In reply to Mickael Istria from comment #5) > Does this new action appear in the Ctrl+3 search? This bug is about the context menu for tabs and a feature loss compared to e3. The new entry behaves as the other menu entries in the tab menu (Close to right, Close, etc). All are not available in Ctrl+3. For a new command or a new menu entry please create a new bug. I really like the idea btw.
(In reply to Lars Vogel from comment #6) > For a new command or a new menu entry please create a new bug. Done: bug 533779
(In reply to Andrey Loskutov from comment #2) > I'm OK. Not that I ever needed this, but if someone wants to implement it - > why not? Same here. I never use detached things, but no objection.
I've adjusted the summary to reality. The detach menu item is only available on views in 3.x. Having said that, I have no issue to also allow this for editors.
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/121312 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=b6efd8bc08d571da2ee0bda06767c02542e1feb9
Created attachment 273682 [details] menu Lars, the way "Detach" menu is added is bad: it is directly next to "Close All", and it is highly likely that people will hit the wrong one. Please put "Detach" on the top of the menu (so IF someone hits wrong menu, it will be "Close", not "Close All") and please add a separator below.
(In reply to Andrey Loskutov from comment #11) > Please put "Detach" on the top of the menu (so IF someone hits wrong menu, > it will be "Close", not "Close All") and please add a separator below. Fine for me, I wait a bit with this change to see if Dani has a different opinion here.
(In reply to Lars Vogel from comment #12) > (In reply to Andrey Loskutov from comment #11) > > > Please put "Detach" on the top of the menu (so IF someone hits wrong menu, > > it will be "Close", not "Close All") and please add a separator below. > > Fine for me, I wait a bit with this change to see if Dani has a different > opinion here. +1 for the proposed changes.
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/121436
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/121436 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=328a08e5634a60d3f3354b8b67f1c10671a96e5f
Verified in eclipse-SDK-I20180422-2000-win32-x86_64
