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Bug 140864 - [65cat] [winsys] Docking limitations on detached editor tabs
Summary: [65cat] [winsys] Docking limitations on detached editor tabs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123118
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: David Simonek
URL:
Keywords: DUAL_MONITOR
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-07-19 04:04 UTC by karmagfa
Modified: 2008-12-22 14:21 UTC (History)
0 users

See Also:
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
Exception Reporter:


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my first screen's content (70.43 KB, image/png)
2008-07-19 16:33 UTC, karmagfa
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my second screen's content (45.35 KB, image/png)
2008-07-19 16:33 UTC, karmagfa
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Description karmagfa 2008-07-19 04:04:59 UTC
[ 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.
Comment 1 karmagfa 2008-07-19 16:32:01 UTC
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.
Comment 2 karmagfa 2008-07-19 16:33:10 UTC
Created attachment 65033 [details]
my first screen's content
Comment 3 karmagfa 2008-07-19 16:33:48 UTC
Created attachment 65034 [details]
my second screen's content
Comment 4 Stanislav Aubrecht 2008-10-16 11:05:31 UTC

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 123118 ***