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Bug 8300

Summary:	Please delete the perspective combo box
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Carolyn MacLeod <carolynmacleod4>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Kevin Haaland <Kevin_Haaland>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	n.a.edgar, rodrigo
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Carolyn MacLeod

2002-01-23 15:51:44 EST

The combo box that allows switching between perspectives does not appear to be 
necessary. It is taking up valuable screen real estate in the tool bar, it is 
completely redundant (because the tools in the vertical toolbar accomplish the 
switching task, and the title of the window accomplishes the "display current 
perspective name" task), and it looks pretty awful - even on windows, but on 
Motif and GTK it is clipped at the bottom (because combos are big and clunky on 
Motif & GTK) and it drops down pretty horribly (great big ugly drop down list).
I cannot actually think of any need at all for this combo. Is it for 
accessibility? Because SHIFT+TAB seems to be a fast enough way to get to the 
vertical toolbar (gets you there faster than TAB or CTRL+TAB takes you to the 
combo). So does this combo box really have a raison d'etre? I think it should 
just be deleted, to clean up the product (less is more).

Comment 1 Rodrigo Peretti

2002-01-23 16:04:27 EST

+1    I also prefer the old way (icon on fast view). On Linux/Motif (at least 
on my machine, it truncates the name Resources to "Resou".

Comment 2 Carolyn MacLeod

2002-01-28 16:03:09 EST

Agree with Roderigo. On some Linux Window managers, almosst every item in the 
toolbar combo box is clipped.

Another problem pointed out by SN is that the combo is useless for allowing you 
to switch between multiple Java perspectives, which is what he does all the 
time.

Comment 3 Kevin Haaland

2002-05-01 14:57:43 EDT

Deleted