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Bug 40463

Summary:	Un/dock window, move window panes
Product:	platform	Reporter:	peterkOnsemi <peterkonsemi>
Component:	Window System	Assignee:	jrojcek <jrojcek>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	mihmax, ttran
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	REGRESSION, UI
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	50352

Description peterkOnsemi 2004-02-25 12:17:52 UTC

Using IDE 3.6 Beta. Missing features which were in 
NetBeans 3.5.1 (distributed with Sun's J2SDK 1.4.
2):

1. Un/dock window, so that I had several Multi-doc 
windows, each possibly showing multiple sources, 
either normally, or "split". No such a feature in 
menu neither by right mouse click.

2. To "move" by drag-and-drop "Filesystems" 
pane/window to the right of NetBeans main window.

Cheers,

Peter Kehl

Comment 1 _ mihmax 2004-04-15 14:20:36 UTC

Hi, Jan

I beleive that missing undock functionality, e.g. allowing for having
a separate source editor on a second screen in dual-screen systems, is
a regression.

Of course one may argue that it's because of a new window system, but
still this great new winsys should have supported this. At least I've
got this requeest in a fido7.ru.java newsgroup recently.

What do you think, and when should we see such a functionality?

(I also changed the Target Milestone to TBD, because it was 3.3)

Comment 2 _ mihmax 2004-05-07 11:00:37 UTC

ping ;-)
Any chances to have dual-screen megarulezz ;-) ?

Comment 3 jrojcek 2004-05-12 10:59:25 UTC

AFAIK, windowing system improvements are planned for the release after 4.0. But I am not 
exactly sure what features it would cover (multi-monitor support, maybe multi-row tabs, 
etc. - I am really not sure).

Trung should know more.

Comment 4 jrojcek 2004-06-17 14:55:54 UTC

Changing to enhancement. This functionality was dropped from the Compact Windows 
Mode intentionally.

Comment 5 David Simonek 2006-08-03 17:27:06 UTC

Implemented in main trunk, views and editors now can be dragged and dropped
outside of main window on second monitor.