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When I close all perspectives, the menu entry 'Help --> Welcome' is disabled. Of course, this is minor. But for novice users, which stumble in a twisted UI where they need help, it is important to start again with the Welcome page. -- Configuration Details -- Product: Eclipse SDK 3.6.0.v201005201744 (org.eclipse.sdk.ide) Installed Features: org.eclipse.platform 3.6.0.v20100512-9gF78GpqFt6trMPh89Rz-jmqnMYpK-UpioD
Closing all perspectives does indeed put the user into a situation where about the only useful thing they can do is open a perspective. I'm wondering why we allow users to close all perspectives from a menu - you can't do much in Eclipse without a perspective open. The two items in the Window menu "Close Perspective" and "Close All Perspectives" don't seem to be particularly useful for most users, maybe the close perspective flow needs to be reconsidered. Passing to Platform UI for comment, I believe they own the Help/Welcome menu item.
Pretty sure this isn't an enhancement request. ;)
Created attachment 204069 [details] patch
(In reply to comment #3) > Created attachment 204069 [details] > patch This does not appear to be a text file.
The plug-in responsible for that issue is org.eclipse.ui.workbench. The reported issue is unfortunately hard-coded and can not be extended in the way of an extension somehow. That's why i'm attaching the simple solution i have to the problem. 1. Change in org.eclipse.ui.internal.IntroAction.java, and more specifically removing the action in pageClosed event for the IPageListener (Line 44) 2. Change in org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchIntroManager.java and more specifically in createIntro(IWorkbenchWindow preferredWindow) method to create a new "default" page when there isn't any active in the Workbench Window. Both classes are attached as a zip archive bug_315197_patch.zip.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > Created attachment 204069 [details] [details] > > patch > > This does not appear to be a text file. What's the correct format to upload the patch - should i upload the whole plug-in sources, each of the affected classes or something else.
(In reply to comment #6) > What's the correct format to upload the patch Normally you would upload a diff. http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/How_to_Contribute
(In reply to comment #6) > What's the correct format to upload the patch - should i upload the whole > plug-in sources, each of the affected classes or something else. Though now that you've stated that it's actually a zip file and not a _patch_, it's clearer what needs to be done with that attachment.
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