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Well, I have 4 source window side by side on my 4K screen -- however I'm still stuck with a 3840 pixel wide console panel at the bottom somehow. WHY? Why do I h

Well, I have 4 source window side by side on my 4K screen -- however I'm still stuck with a 3840 pixel wide console panel at the bottom somehow. WHY? Why do I have to sacrifice all that valuable vertical space for information that is always stacked in the 20% left side of that huge panel? Mind you it's not just Eclipse, seem every IDE took their cue on how to do stuff from a VisualStudio from the 90's and decided it whas THE way to do it. I still use Eclipse a lot (and Geany[0], for a lighter editor) -- the Code Indexer is the best I've ever tried. I can index the whole Linux Kernel in there, and it's a real blessing. [0]: http://www.geany.org/ http://www.geany.org/

the8472 11y ago
> however I'm still stuck with a 3840 pixel wide console panel at the bottom somehow. I don't understand how you can be stuck with that. You can close the panel, move it somewhere else or minimize it. Eclipse does not force any particular layout on you. You can even have 4 editor views side by side and only partition one of the 4 vertically to have the console at 1/4th width.
virtualwhys 11y ago
> Why do I have to sacrifice all that valuable vertical space for information that is always stacked in the 20% left side of that huge panel? You don't, hide it via CSS[1]. Entire Eclipse UI is customizable. Install CSS Spy[2] to experiment live before committing changes. My Eclipse setup actually looks like VIM with split buffers, there is nary a wasted pixel. To get to that point that though (e.g. hiding right side gutters and always-on scrollbars) is a bit more involved, need to take custom plugin route for that. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/17027501/185840 http://stackoverflow.com/a/17027501/185840 [2] http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-4-tools-css-spy#.UYrzSkAW1J0 http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-4-tools-css-s...

the8472 11y ago

> however I'm still stuck with a 3840 pixel wide console panel at the bottom somehow. I don't understand how you can be stuck with that. You can close the panel, move it somewhere else or minimize it. Eclipse does not force any particular layout on you. You can even have 4 editor views side by side and only partition one of the 4 vertically to have the console at 1/4th width.

virtualwhys 11y ago

> Why do I have to sacrifice all that valuable vertical space for information that is always stacked in the 20% left side of that huge panel? You don't, hide it via CSS[1]. Entire Eclipse UI is customizable. Install CSS Spy[2] to experiment live before committing changes. My Eclipse setup actually looks like VIM with split buffers, there is nary a wasted pixel. To get to that point that though (e.g. hiding right side gutters and always-on scrollbars) is a bit more involved, need to take custom plugin route for that. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/17027501/185840 http://stackoverflow.com/a/17027501/185840 [2] http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-4-tools-css-spy#.UYrzSkAW1J0 http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-4-tools-css-s...