Re: [platform-ui-dev] Activate the "Show in the Original Location" by de

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
thanks for the discussion. As there is not consensus to change the
default, I close the topic for me.

If something wants to work on moving the well hidden setting to the
normal preference dialog, please open a bug for that. I currently have
no capacity to work on this.

Best regards, Lars

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Andrey Loskutov <loskutov@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I must confess, I was too fast saying +1 for the proposed change. I'm now
> -1.
>
> Now that I'm aware where to switch that behavior, I've tried to use it, and
> the surprising issue is that it does not what I *hoped* it would do: it does
> not just un-minimize the stack and shows the view in that stack, instead it
> *literally* shows the view and all tabs in the stack at the "old" position,
> but it does NOT hide the "minimized stack toolbar" and does NOT show the
> "minimize" button on the stack. The result looks like a "usual" tab stack,
> but it disappears immediately if it loses the focus (arrgh!) but it does not
> allows to minimize it in a "usual" way with the "minimize" button, because
> the button is just not there. Odd! This is so much surprizing and irritating
> me that I think now the old behavior, as odd as it was, is better.
>
> Ideally I would just want that by clicking the view icon in a minimized
> stack the stack would un-minimize. That's all, no fancy popups or
> pseudo-unmimimized views which appear at most unexpected locations and
> disappear at most unexpected time.
>
> Again, as said in my other mail, this option (whatever it does) must be
> better discoverable and belongs into the UI preference page. Current "hack"
> to show it on right-clicking "minimize" button is a joke and inconsistent
> with any UI's I'm aware of, where "minimize" button never has any context
> menu with other meaning/function as "minimize".
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrey Loskutov
>
> http://google.com/+AndreyLoskutov
>
>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Juli 2017 um 16:33 Uhr
> Von: "Mickael Istria" <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>
> An: "Eclipse Platform UI component developers list."
> <platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Betreff: Re: [platform-ui-dev] Activate the "Show in the Original Location"
> by default for minimized stacks?
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> with the "original" location it might appear anywhere in the window.
>
> Isn't it supposed to appear to the location it was previously? If so, I
> personally remember better and care much more about the location of the view
> on my workbench, which I happen to have already used and chosen, than about
> the location of the minimized icon.
> I've been using the IDE for years and I learn only about today that the
> location of pop-up views is matching the minimized icon solution; and now I
> know it, I doesn't sound as cool as many other things I still discover... So
> I'm not convinced that the argument of the minimized icon is very strong and
> very focused on usability.
>
> Anyway, is this an option we can switch from EPP? It might be also a good
> place to have this discussion.
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