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Bug 361676

Summary:	[Perspectives] perspective button should not be shown for a perspective from a missing plug-in
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Grant Gayed <grant_gayed>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	emoffatt, remy.suen
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Grant Gayed

2011-10-21 11:23:06 EDT

This may be the same as bug 361392, but I was not quite sure based on the steps in that report.

- launch eclipse
- install the EGit plug-in, restart
- show the EGit perspective
- switch to another open perspective (leave the EGit perspective open)
- exit eclipse
- launch a different eclipse install that does not contain the EGit plug-in, and point it at the same workspace you were just using
- notice that the EGit perspective still appears in the perspectives bar (seems wrong)
- click on it and it switches to a perspective whose main view just shows an error

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-10-23 08:29:24 EDT

Are both Eclipse installations on 4.x?

Comment 2 Grant Gayed

2011-10-24 09:26:12 EDT

Yes, they're both I20111018-2000.

Comment 3 Remy Suen

2011-10-24 09:31:17 EDT

We purposely leave those perspectives lying around so that the user can reinstall the plug-in and have those perspectives be functional again. I would close this as being working by design, Eric?

Comment 4 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 03:26:12 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.

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