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Bug 361676 - [Perspectives] perspective button should not be shown for a perspective from a missing plug-in
Summary: [Perspectives] perspective button should not be shown for a perspective from ...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Reported: 2011-10-21 11:23 EDT by Grant Gayed CLA
Modified: 2019-11-14 03:26 EST (History)
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Description Grant Gayed CLA 2011-10-21 11:23:06 EDT 
This may be the same as bug 361392, but I was not quite sure based on the steps in that report.

- launch eclipse
- install the EGit plug-in, restart
- show the EGit perspective
- switch to another open perspective (leave the EGit perspective open)
- exit eclipse
- launch a different eclipse install that does not contain the EGit plug-in, and point it at the same workspace you were just using
- notice that the EGit perspective still appears in the perspectives bar (seems wrong)
- click on it and it switches to a perspective whose main view just shows an error
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2011-10-23 08:29:24 EDT 
Are both Eclipse installations on 4.x?
Comment 2 Grant Gayed CLA 2011-10-24 09:26:12 EDT 
Yes, they're both I20111018-2000.
Comment 3 Remy Suen CLA 2011-10-24 09:31:17 EDT 
We purposely leave those perspectives lying around so that the user can reinstall the plug-in and have those perspectives be functional again. I would close this as being working by design, Eric?
Comment 4 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-11-14 03:26:12 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.

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