Floating views

Views can be torn off from the workbench window and can "float" on the desktop on their own. Even though a view is floating it continues to behave as a part of the perspective from which it was detached. If you hide a perspective that contains a floating view, the floating view is hidden as well.

1.

Select the Navigator view.

2.

Click in the view's title bar and drag the view outside the workbench window.

3.

Resize the floating view window to make it larger or smaller, as you wish.

4.

You can move the floating view around by dragging its title bar.

Your workbench should now look something like this: