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Bug 78722

Summary:	[Perspectives] First time perspective trigger doesn't explain what perspective is
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Min Idzelis <min123>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Michael Van Meekeren <michaelvanmeekeren>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	dejan, michaelvanmeekeren
Version:	3.1	Keywords:	usability
Target Milestone:	3.2 M6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Min Idzelis

2004-11-16 08:31:33 EST

This is from the new eclipse user point of view. 

If you create a new java project, at the end of the wizard it asks you "Do you
want to switch to the Java Perspective?" The new user has no idea what a
perspective is. Some explaination or help that would pop up at this time would
really help this new user.

Comment 1 Nick Edgar

2004-11-17 11:01:47 EST

This is an interesting case to consider with the user assistance work.
At a minimum, we could improve the wording.  A link to the relevant help
topic(s) wouldn't hurt either.

Comment 2 Michael Van Meekeren

2004-11-17 12:01:22 EST

yes.  Adding Dejan.

Comment 3 Michael Van Meekeren

2005-06-09 09:09:35 EDT

+1 for even minor wording improvements.  I've always wanted to improve this
experience with a better description and possibly an image forshadowing what the
perspective will look like and what it can do for you.  I.e. why would I want to
do this?

Comment 4 Michael Van Meekeren

2005-06-14 15:25:09 EDT

deferring to 3.2 we have more places we need to consider for this scenario

Comment 5 Michael Van Meekeren

2006-02-10 18:16:12 EST

If a description were provided with a perspective we could display it here.  Maybe we can look into this for 3.2

Comment 6 Michael Van Meekeren

2006-03-22 12:04:55 EST

marking as fixed logging new bugs to track work in other components.

Comment 7 Michael Van Meekeren

2006-03-28 15:32:52 EST

verified on I20060328-0010 on Linux Motif