Plug-in idea: Keep Eclipse views sorted

Posted on December 4th, 2008 at 16:22

Wouldn't it be great if Eclipse would keep all views in a stack sorted alphabetically? This way I wouldn't have to manually reorganize my views after opening a new one.

Is there a plug-in that enforces this? Or is this something that can't be done with the current public API and needs to be done by the Eclipse platform itself?

On December 4th, 2008 Antoine Toulme (not verified) said:

No, there are no plugins that enforce this. That would need to be done at a very low level.

Instead you should define your own perspective, I think.

On December 4th, 2008 Andrei Loskutov (not verified) said:

Actually the similar function exists for *editor* tabs [1], if you use Extended VS presentation plugin [2]. Adding this to the *view* tabs shouldn't be a big thing. You can try to do it by yourself (plugin is open source).

[1] http://andrei.gmxhome.de/skins/extendedvs_sessions3.gif
[2] http://andrei.gmxhome.de/skins/index.html

CU
Andrei

On December 4th, 2008 litrik said:

Andrei, that looks cool. I'll look into it when I have some time. Thanks for the input.

On January 23rd, 2009 Andrei Loskutov (not verified) said:

You can try a new plugin version, which is now doing exactly what you've requested ;-)
http://andrei.gmxhome.de/skins/index.html