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Bug 101485

Summary:	[Preferences] [RCP] IPerspectiveRegistry.setDefaultPerspective(null) has no effect
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P5	CC:	Tod_Creasey
Version:	3.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Nick Edgar

2005-06-23 12:12:16 EDT

build N20050623

While working on bug 100927, I traced through PlatformUIPreferenceListener's
handling of the change of the default perspective pref to nothing (empty string).
It ends up calling IPerspectiveRegistry.setDefaultPerspective("").
It should be passing null in this case.  However, with the current
implementation that will have no effect.  It just looks for a perspective with a
matching id, finds none, and does nothing in that case.

It should clear defaultPerspID.
Also need to convert from null to "" when setting the preference, or an NPE will
result.

Should have a regression test for this too.

Comment 1 Nick Edgar

2006-03-15 11:24:32 EST

Reassigning bugs in component areas that are changing ownership.

Comment 2 Kevin McGuire

2007-06-21 15:58:31 EDT

We're closer. Null is now correctly returned from IPerspectiveDescriptor findPerspectiveWithId(String id) but we then do nothing in setDefaultPerspective.

An easy fix for someone in the community to submit.

Comment 3 Boris Bokowski

2009-11-26 16:16:20 EST

Prakash is now responsible for watching bugs in the [RCP] component area.

Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:05:05 EDT

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Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2021-12-09 17:58:36 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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