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I suggest a feature to lock all views by configuration. I often rearrange, close, resize views by error, which is annoying.
Reassigning bugs in component areas that are changing ownership.
One way of doing this would be to make use of the existing concept of a "fixed perspective". You can "hack" this yourself by shutting down Eclipse, modifying your workbench.xml file (in .metadata/plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench) and then starting Eclipse again. In the <perspective> element, after <fastViewBars />, insert lines like this for every view in that perspective: <viewLayoutRec closeable="false" id="id.of.the.view" moveable="false" /> This will make those views non-closeable and non-moveable. You can still resize them, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea to disable resizing too given that you can still resize the workbench window itself. Programmatically, I'm not sure how to change an existing perspective to become fixed. Sounds like a difficult thing to do given the complexity of the presentation API. It would be easiest if we had an operation to clone the current perspective with the option of making it a fixed perspective. Similar to "Save Perspective As...", except that one does not actually clone the current perspective... Let me know if you need more pointers.
Remy is now responsible for watching the [ViewMgmt] category.
*** Bug 298655 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is a serious and annoying issue on eclipse using RDP on a VMs (as of 2013). The slight delay causes it to be hard to work with moving things once you get them right. A simple toggleable lock/unlock control on the menu bar at the far right is what is desired. The work around Boris Bokowski suggests is not practical.
Can you please consider adding a lock unlock toggle to the top menu bar in eclipse to set moveable to be false? <viewLayoutRec id="id.of.the.view" moveable="false" /> In the current perspective after each element? I think they should still be resizable and closeable (so search or whatever can be closed but when you do a new one it pops back to where it should be).
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