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[ BUILD # : 200807170007 ] [ JDK VERSION : 1.6.0_05 ] How to reproduce: 1) Have two wide monitors, or just pretend you have them. 2) Open Netbeans on the first monitor. Enjoy Netbean's windows system that let you have 2 source code tabs side by side. That really rocks. 3) Take 2 source code tabs to the second screen, they will be encapsulated into a separate window after you drop them. Group the 2 files so that they are in the same window on the second monitor. 4) Enjoy to see that Netbeans grouped them as tabbed view. Smart isn't it? You now feel that you have all the functionalities of the netbeans of the first monitor on the second one. That's really cool, you think that you can fully use your 2 wide screens. 5) Now try to have them side by side in the same window. ... unfortunaly, you can't :-( The work around to that is to have the 2 source tabs of the second monitor into 2 different windows, but that is clear not convenient to manipulate. According to the statistics on the QA page, 12% of Netbeans users are using 2 monitors, and 5% are using 3. So this problem potencially concerns 17% of the Netbeans users. I was wondering if I should file a bug report or a RFE, so I took a look at the window system documentation .. and realized that it was pretty old, and too long to read. So .. I decided to file a bug because from the user's point of view, this is either an implementation problem or a design problem.
More clear explanation of the problem: I made 2 screenshots, please take a look. My complain is that we can't have the layout of the first screen in the window that I put in my second screen. I don't want to group the tabs, I want them to be side by side, so I can see their content at the same time.
Created attachment 65033 [details] my first screen's content
Created attachment 65034 [details] my second screen's content
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