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Bug 40110 - MDI External windows
Summary: MDI External windows
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: David Simonek
URL:
Keywords: UI
Depends on:
Blocks: 50352
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Reported: 2004-02-14 20:08 UTC by dthoma
Modified: 2008-12-23 14:33 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description dthoma 2004-02-14 20:08:13 UTC
This feature was removed in this version but it
was quite usefull when working with more than one
monitor.
A replacement for that feature would be nice.
I think of something like the posibility of
creating more than one ide-desktop and draging
internal windows between them.
(That would be a quite powerfull feature in
conjunction with workspaces, since you could place
the editing workespace on the first and the debug
workspace on the second monitor etc.)
Comment 1 Jan Chalupa 2004-11-01 16:50:21 UTC
Re-assigning Tim's issues to Dafe.
Comment 2 David Simonek 2005-05-06 21:31:31 UTC
OK, do you have any other use cases then multiple monitors situation?
Comment 3 stighd 2005-05-24 21:07:37 UTC
in 3.5 and earlier, I used to detach the editor and output windows and maximize
them, using alt-tab to switch between the FS mount tree, output and editor. It's
been a while, but as I remember it, this was a fairly productive setup for me on
1 monitor. I'd expect it to work equally well or better on a 2-monitor system
(which I'm lucky enough to have now).

It's a matter of taste, I suppose, but this is the one feature I miss the most
from the good old nb3.5 days... :) 
Comment 4 David Simonek 2005-05-25 10:28:44 UTC
Thanks, acknowledged.
Comment 5 David Simonek 2006-08-03 17:26:10 UTC
Implemented in main trunk, views and editors now can be dragged and dropped
outside of main window on second monitor.
Comment 6 Quality Engineering 2008-12-23 14:33:34 UTC
This issue had *4 votes* before move to platform component