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Bug 85585

Summary: [Perspectives] perspective preferences - confused by reset/delete
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Susan McCourt <susan>
Component: UIAssignee: Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: hudsonr
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Susan McCourt CLA 2005-02-16 16:46:06 EST 
M5 candidate, v200502152300

I'm testing perspective preferences per the UI test plan.
When are the reset and delete buttons on the page supposed to enable?
They are disabled when I select any perspective.  I tried making a new default 
and it didn't matter.  I tried changing some of the radio button options but 
it didn't matter.  I tried applying values, restoring defaults.  These buttons 
are never enabled.
Comment 1 Randy Hudson CLA 2005-02-17 11:26:24 EST 
Probably you must overwrite a perspective for Reset to enable, and create a 
new perspective for Remove to enable.  If so, these two buttons will never 
BOTH be enabled. Perspectives which are not user-defined (removable) should be 
rendered differently, maybe a lock or something. GEF palette needs to copy 
whatever UI decoration is used for this.

As far as "Reset" wording, this wording is conflicting with the other "Reset" 
on the Window menu. These two cases should be changed to "Restore Defaults", 
and "Reload Layout/Perspective". bug 40562.

Another reason why the new reset button will rarely enable is that perspective 
changes get lost when the perspective closes.  bug 9974.
Comment 2 Nick Edgar CLA 2005-02-18 10:04:36 EST 
Randy's assessment is correct.  See also bug 81287.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40562 ***