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i200409212000 Once a view is undocked from a maximized workbench window, it is hard to move it around if you don't want to dock it again. It would be great if I could press some modifier key (shift/ctrl/whatever) while I am dragging the view so docking would be disabled. The maximed workbench window part is just intended to make the problem clearly reproducible. The issue happens whenever the user wants the undocked view and the workbench to overlap.
Good idea. However, to make this happen we'll need access to those modifier keys... and that requires SWT support. I've filed bug 74736 requesting this support. CC'ing Michael, because he and I were discussing this very enhancement earlier. We also thought it would be a good idea to display the message "Hold down ctrl to detach" on the status line during normal drag/drop... this would help users discover the modifier key if they didn't know about it already.
I took a stab at fixing this, but we're still missing the ability to query for the initial key state. Reopening bug 74736.
This bug is a duplicate of bug 58003. The modifier key workaround is a red herring because no user will ever find this feature.
Not sure this was possible before, but with 3.1 RC2 I can drag either a view that is inside a detached window (dragging it by the view tab) or a detached window (dragging it by the title area). By using the latter, I get what I had originally requested here. The problem remains if I have two views in the same detached window and I want drag one to its own window.
I'm marking this bug as fixed. You can now move widows around without having them dock using the shell trimmings around the detached view. To drop a view back into the workbench you drag the tab, same as you would to drag views inside the workbench around. Also I can drag a view from a stack of views in a detached scenario and create another detached view.
Fine with me, but note that for the second scenario you still can't do that if the workbench window is maximized.
You could use the popup menu on the view tab.
