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Bug 1994

Summary:	[Perspectives] "Edit Perspectives" - should be able to create new (1GDDUO7)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Kevin Haaland <Kevin_Haaland>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	investigate, usability
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows NT
Whiteboard:

Description Kevin McGuire

2001-10-10 22:24:04 EDT

(usability/consistency)

"Perspectives->Edit Perspectives" provides a list dialog but you can't add new ones.
However you can create new ones by doing "Save Perspective As...".

This is inconsistent.  You would expect to be able to also do it from 'edit' also (I certainly did, then noticed "Save as" after).
If there is concern that "new" would have to create an empty one and this for some reason is invalid,
you could support "copy" in the edit dialog.

NOTES:

Comment 1 DJ Houghton

2001-10-29 17:44:08 EST

PRODUCT VERSION:

103

Comment 2 Kevin Haaland

2002-04-23 20:11:00 EDT

Consider as a post 2.0 enhancement

Comment 3 Randy Giffen

2002-08-07 09:59:23 EDT

Reopened for investigation

Comment 4 Eduardo Pereira

2002-09-03 15:11:41 EDT

The menu option does not exist anymore. It became a page in the preferences 
dialog. 

Not a valid PR anymore.