[e4-dev] Dragging editors outside of the editor area ... what does/shoul

[Dean Roberts <Dean_Roberts@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Came across this behavior while testing
scenarios around https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=359556

What I'm going to describe here is not
really a bug ... but might need some discussion about whether or not this
is desired use case behavior.

1) Open a Java perspective
2) Open two editors
3) Open the debug perspective

Of course, the two editors are open
in the editor area.

4) drag one of the editors into some
stack outside of the of the shared editor area.
5) switch to the Java perspective

So the editor dragged outside of the
shared editor area is not visible in the Java perspective.  As a (wannabee)
 E4 developer, I understand why.  The stack I dropped it into
in the debug perspective is not part of the Java perspective.  

But I wonder, is this really what the
user would expect to happen?  Does the user community as a whole understand
that it is the place where editors open by default that is magical and
shared .... or is their mental model that editors are magical and shared.
 I suppose it is obvious there is an editor area ... it has decorations
that can minimize it.

Just thought I'd bring it up and see
if anybody else finds this surprising.

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