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Bug 40562 - [Perspectives] Reset Perspective Action is confusing
Summary: [Perspectives] Reset Perspective Action is confusing
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Whiteboard: stalebug
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: 85585 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2003-07-21 12:00 EDT by Randy Hudson CLA
Modified: 2020-08-01 09:20 EDT (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Randy Hudson CLA 2003-07-21 12:00:54 EDT 
The action Window->Reset Perspective is confusing because I am confused by it :-
).

I thought it's purpose was to erase my modifications to the perspective, and to 
re-load it from plugin.xml file.  In fact, there is no way to restore such 
provided perspectives as "java", "resource", etc.

The action would be better named as "Reapply/Relayout Perspective" or something 
similar.

Sorry in advance for what is probably a duplicate.
Comment 1 Simon Arsenault CLA 2003-07-23 15:40:26 EDT 
Window > Reset Perspective action is to reset your perspective to its last 
known saved state.

If you modified "Java" perspective, and saved it under the same name, then to 
restore the "Java" perspective as it was ship, you need to open the Workbench > 
Perspectives preference page, select Java perspective, and press Reset button.

It's so obvious I can't believe you were confused by it ;-)
Comment 2 Randy Hudson CLA 2003-07-23 16:09:40 EDT 
So it's "Reset Prespective", vs. Perspective -> Reset.  Oh, now I see ;-)
Comment 3 Randy Hudson CLA 2004-05-24 15:44:23 EDT 
Any chance of getting this string-only change in?  I have seen users which are 
scared to invoke "Reset Perspective" because they have customized their 
persective in some way.
Comment 4 Nick Edgar CLA 2004-05-26 10:01:41 EDT 
We have no plans to change this for 3.0.
Comment 5 Stefan Xenos CLA 2005-02-16 16:20:03 EST 
I agree... this is confusing. In my case, I encountered the action first and was
confused about why the preference page didn't have the same behavior.
Comment 6 Nick Edgar CLA 2005-02-18 10:04:37 EST 
*** Bug 85585 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Nick Edgar CLA 2006-03-15 11:21:51 EST 
Reassigning bugs in component areas that are changing ownership.
Comment 8 Paul Webster CLA 2006-09-28 15:12:47 EDT 
Is this still a problem in 3.3?

PW
Comment 9 Denis Roy CLA 2007-06-22 09:32:30 EDT 
Changes requested on bug 193523
Comment 10 Udo Walker CLA 2015-09-24 12:54:36 EDT 
Fixed?
Comment 11 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-08-01 09:20:49 EDT 
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. As such, we're closing this bug.

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