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Bug 80132

Summary: [plan item] Enhancements for supporting new users
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jim des Rivieres <jeem>
Component: UIAssignee: Michael Van Meekeren <michaelvanmeekeren>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 CC: eclipse, gergely.buday
Version: 3.0Keywords: plan
Target Milestone: 3.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Jim des Rivieres CLA 2004-12-03 14:17:41 EST 
Following on from the work done in Eclipse 3.0, we want to further improve the 
way Eclipse feels to new users. For example: support for templates (to create 
projects that do something useful) as well as a set of templates that ship 
with Eclipse SDK; support for samples (enhancing sample support shipped in 3.0 
and making it API); safe mode (a constrained mode of running the workbench -
 'training wheels' - where capabilities are restricted in order to prevent 
common early mistakes); simpler workspace chooser (where do you want your work 
saved?); more usable perspective chooser with short description, a small image 
that shows the general perspective layout, perspective groups by role e.g. 
Java Development. [Platform UI]
Comment 1 Gergely Buday CLA 2005-02-25 08:10:32 EST 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Following on from the work done in Eclipse 3.0, we want to further improve the 
> way Eclipse feels to new users. [...] more usable perspective chooser with
short description, a small image 
> that shows the general perspective layout, perspective groups by role e.g. 
> Java Development. [Platform UI]

It would be nice if the Perspectives pop-up menu had _all_ the perspectives, not
just two or three and the "Other" button. In my case, I have to switch
frequently  between Java and Subversion perspective, but if I'm in Java
perspective, Subversion is in "Others" and vice versa. This makes it a bit
cumbersome. A solution would be that the pop-up showed all perspectives at once,
since there aren't too many perspectives in eclipse, and/or remembered which
perspectives had been selected previously, and put them on the top of the list.
Comment 2 Michael Van Meekeren CLA 2005-06-23 17:28:44 EDT 
marking as FIXED, there is still more to be done here, will log a new bug for
this for 3.2