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A nice feature would be to

vwchong — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:18:29 -0400

A nice feature would be to let popup window have Views instead of just Tabs. Tabs cannot have action buttons on its tab bar. If it is possible, can someone let me know? Thanks.

I'd would like to be able to

vwchong — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:20:29 -0400

I'd would like to be able to use View in a Popup window. I like the action buttons I can put in the toolbar of a View but that currently is not available. You can only have Tabs and to the best of my knowledge, it is not possible to put buttons on the Tab bar. It is only possible for a View but we can't put a View on a popup Window. Can we? If so please tell me.

This idea may be off the

rpitre — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:12:10 -0400

This idea may be off the wall a bit....

When i'm looking at code all day long my eyes start to get tired and i start to lose focus of where i'm at in the text editor...I'm not sure if this would help me or not but i think it would be nice if the code outside of the method you're working on was somehow greyed out a bit....similar to a modal window but the text in the greyed out area is clickable...I guess you could call this a "modal text block"...

One more: Surfing code

aexodo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:15:47 -0400

One more:

Surfing code should really be more easily. Say, scrolling through editors via mouse wheel when moving the mouse pointer over the editor tabs or scrolling via mousewheel when pressing CTRL+E. I would like to see a lot of Firefox browsing capabilities in Eclipse.

Hm ... what would it be like to have something like mouse gestures (search for mouse gesture/all-in-one-gestures Firefox Add-on)?

Right Martin, shortly

aexodo — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:38:52 -0400

Right Martin,

shortly after posting I realized it and switched to CTRL + TAB, since that's currently not used by xubuntu afaik.

What about telling you what

palm35 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:20:16 -0400

What about telling you what a deprecated method is replaced by instead of just telling you it is deprecated

@Roman Isn't shift+tab

beiker — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:04:07 -0400

@Roman Isn't shift+tab "decrease indent", what do you use for that?

wait! i finally found what

aexodo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:27:06 -0400

wait!
i finally found what is to me the ultimate keystroke:
next editor CTRL + F6
since I consider that keystroke still too cumbersome, I edited my key settings under Window --> Pereferences -->General --> Keys to
SHIFT + TAB ... finally you are there, beloved shortcut.

wicketeers: got it

aexodo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:05:53 -0400

wicketeers: got it :-) thank's for the tipps - i knew about CTRL + SHIFT +E but never tried CTRL + E ... much easier, I was always in need of that. I tried some keystrokes and accidently hit one where I could find implementations of interfaces. Un-luckily, I couldn't reproduce it :-/ Does anybody know how to find out what classes implement an interface?

aexodo wrote:like "sort

joco — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:34:34 -0400

aexodo wrote:

like "sort files by name and not by ending" so you can have these together: BasePage.java BasePage.html

that would be nice for the wicketeers under us yes :)

Most of you should really

joco — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:29:58 -0400

Most of you should really use the key combination CTRL-SHIFT-L a few times when you have a perspective/editor open and see what is all possible.

for example editor management: CTRL-F6 (forward CTRL-SHIFT-F6 backwards) or CTRL-E (type beginning of the filename in the editor.)

i dont know directly how to switch to editor 1 or 2 if you are at 5, But that only make sense to the open editors you see i guess so that is what 5 or 8 from the 20+ you can have open? In that case CTRL-E is your friend

Oh' and maybe more themes

aexodo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:32:56 -0400

Oh' and maybe more themes would be nice as well :-) And in package explorer you should have more sorting options, like "sort files by name and not by ending" so you can have these together: BasePage.java BasePage.html

I really like Eclipse and I

aexodo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:28:02 -0400

I really like Eclipse and I am still discovering new Features after 1 year of developing. But what really sucks is that you can't switch from one editor to the next via an *easy* shortcut like you are used to in most editors like kate, gedit using ALT + 1|2|3|... It's such a basic thing you have to do, switching from one editor to the next - why the hell does it have to be so complicated?

Oops, they seemed to have

pc36525 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:26:09 -0400

Oops, they seemed to have fixed that in the latest packages!

More incentive to upgrade! :)

On the subject of package

pc36525 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:16:05 -0400

On the subject of package integration, it'd be nice if the eclipse download was split up into dependant packages.

e.g. The latest NeatBeans download, advertised by Geertjan recently, for ubuntu hardy plays nicer in terms of referencing libraries as standard dpkg dependencies.

Eclipse on the other hand bundles ant/lucene/tomcat/junit and possibly others one already has installed on one's system within a great big download.

So every time there's a new revision, tens of megabytes need to be downloaded.

I'd prefer to install plugin modules, that shared libs, via synaptic than some poxy IDE specific mechanism. Why have 4 version of ant/junit and other cruft on one's machine?

Maybe a google summer of code idea there for pluggable backends!