Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 25317
Eclipse IDE like UI - nonfloating and overlapping window panes in a single main window
Last modified: 2004-09-14 17:54:21 UTC
Request for Enhancement: A new (alternative) UI window layout similar to modern IDEs (like Eclipse): - Central single main window - Several (resizable) but nonoverlapping areas - Open documents are visible in a central area, switchable by tabs - Stylist, Navigator, Hyperlink and similar floating always-on windows are permanently docked to side areas of the main window, switchable by tabs - UI styles are saveable (like perspectives in Eclipse) - Set of opened docs can be saved and reopened (e.g. all pages of a web site)
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SBA->Pietjonas: (1) Most of the bars and Windows (like Stylist, Navigator) can be draggged and docked and their position gets saved. To do so, hold the <Ctrl> key, make a long-click into the respective object, move it, leave it, voilá... Please try this and correct your list of "what's missing". Thank you. (2) Please note that collective tasks are impossible to handle. So if the outcome is still a "list" like the one you came up with, you must write an issue for each "thingie". Feel free to name the issues within each other so that the link may be traced by others. But an "All in one (issue)" doesn't work (i.e. because several developers and time frames are very likely to be involved). Set to "invalid" until a better description rolls in.
Commenting on version 680m32:: - there is an easy way to dock/undock the toolbars. Hold Ctrl + Double Click the toolbar. The toolbar if docked, will get released and become a floating window; if undocked the tbar will get to its previous docked position. - a small problem is if one of the toolbars was docked in the side where stylist and / or navigator is docked and the stylist/navigator window is floating {not perfectly, just not "sticked" {hitting that pin}}, that toolbar will be hidden beneath those panes unless Stylist / Navigator is "stuck". - At present stylist and navigator can be docked only to Right hand side. As far as I tried and as it worked.
SBA: Closed.