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Bug 81287

Summary:	[Perspectives] No obvious way to delete custom perspective
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Kim Horne <eclipse>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P5	CC:	michaelvanmeekeren, udo.walker
Version:	3.0	Keywords:	usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Kim Horne

2004-12-15 14:20:36 EST

200412142000

Unless I'm blind there doesn't seem to be a way to delete a custom perspective
once it's been created.

Comment 1 Kim Horne

2004-12-15 14:24:21 EST

Ok, so I am blind.  You can do it from the preference page.  This is very
unintuitive...

Comment 2 Nick Edgar

2004-12-15 15:17:50 EST

I have to admit that it is.  Where did you look for it first?

Comment 3 Kim Horne

2004-12-15 15:28:48 EST

I looked in the window menu.  When I didnt find it there I went to the Open
Perspective dialog and hit delete.  When that didn't work I went and asked Tod.  :)

Comment 4 Nick Edgar

2004-12-15 15:42:42 EST

So how about:
Window > Delete Perspective...
- prompts for which perspective to delete
  - showing only custom perspectives and explaining why
- allows multi-select
- has OK, Cancel buttons
- OK enabled iff one or more selected
- Cancel always enabled 
- on OK,
  - prompts to close any open perspectives that are in the selected list,
allowing cancel
  - deletes selected perspective(s)

Comment 5 Kim Horne

2004-12-15 16:04:45 EST

Either that or a Manage Perspectives action that takes you to the appropriate
page inside the preference dialog...

Comment 6 Nick Edgar

2004-12-16 10:03:07 EST

That might be better, since it gives a path to the other perspective management
settings.  CC'ing MVM to see if this jives with the overall prefs story.

Comment 7 Nick Edgar

2004-12-16 10:04:47 EST

Also: the prefs dialog currently checks for open perspectives that are about to
be deleted when OK is pressed, not when Delete is pressed.  This can be
confusing, particularly when multiple perspectives have been deleted: if any of
them are open, none are deleted.  Should look at addressing this too.

Comment 8 Nick Edgar

2005-02-18 10:05:25 EST

See also bug 40562 and its dup for confusion about the terms used, and some
suggestions.

Comment 9 Nick Edgar

2005-02-18 10:05:39 EST

Deferring.

Comment 10 Nick Edgar

2005-03-22 17:30:41 EST

Deferring again.

Comment 11 Nick Edgar

2005-05-06 12:06:07 EDT

Not for 3.1.

Comment 12 Nick Edgar

2006-03-15 11:46:50 EST

Reassigning bugs in component areas that are changing ownership.

Comment 13 Paul Webster

2006-09-28 15:14:20 EDT

Is this still a problem in 3.3?

PW

Comment 14 Denis Roy

2007-06-22 09:32:45 EDT

Changes requested on bug 193523

Comment 15 Udo Walker

2015-09-25 07:46:11 EDT

This is still not fixed.

I would like to delete my own perspective as when I created it: with the pop-up menu directly in the perspective bar. Just add the delete oparation in the pop-up menu.

Comment 16 Eclipse Genie

2020-01-13 02:21:07 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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. 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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