[platform-ui-dev] Release Notes: View Drag and Drop

[David_Springgay@xxxxxxx]

In Eclipse, the size and position of a view may be changed by grabbing the
view title with the mouse, and dragging.  This feature  has led to a number
of problems.

1) If you click on the title bar of a view, and then move your mouse to
access the main toolbar or menubar, sometimes you don't release the mouse
button fast enough.  In this situation a d&d is started and a detached
window is created.  The detached window looks a lot like a view within a
folder, so you may not notice it until much later, after you do some other
actions, and the floating window manifests itself.

2) If you click on a view and then drag it, there is no obvious way to
cancel the drag just by putting the view back where it came from.  This
creates a floating window, which you have to redrag to regain the original
layout.  This also occurs with view folders.

To resolve problem 1, the hysterisis for view movement has been bumped from
8 to 10 pixels, so a (slightly) more deliberate effort is required to begin
the drag.

To resolve problem 2, the behavior of drag and drop has been changed.  If
you drag a view or folder out, then back over itself, the "reject cursor"
appears.  If you release the mouse button at that point, the drag is
cancelled.  In all other scenarios, the behavior is unchanged.

Dave