43380 – [Perspectives] Perspective not saved to disk

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Bug 43380 - [Perspectives] Perspective not saved to disk

Summary: [Perspectives] Perspective not saved to disk

Status:	CLOSED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	UI (show other bugs)
Version:	3.0
Hardware:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	4.5
Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged
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Reported:	2003-09-19 15:57 EDT by Michael Valenta
Modified:	2020-05-11 13:18 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Michael Valenta

2003-09-19 15:57:44 EDT

I created a new perspective and saved it (using Window>Save Perspective 
As...). Shortly after, Eclipse crashed. On startup, the perspective I saved 
was not available. I think that the perspective should be persisted to disk 
when the user performs an explicit save.

Comment 1 Nick Edgar

2006-03-15 11:21:55 EST

Reassigning bugs in component areas that are changing ownership.

Comment 2 Paul Webster

2006-09-28 15:12:49 EDT

Is this still a problem in 3.3?

PW

Comment 3 Michael Valenta

2006-09-28 15:23:28 EDT

I don't know. Given that reproducing the failure requires a workbench crash, I do not plan on trying to reproduce it.

Comment 4 Paul Webster

2006-09-28 19:20:18 EDT

This problem is related to some of what we talked about.  Saving a perspective just creates a preference.  It'll get written out when the preferences get written out ... I guess which is why the crash killed them (and any other unsaved preferences).

Should we force a preference write after saving a perspective?

PW

Comment 5 Michael Valenta

2006-09-29 08:35:31 EDT

Yes, I think that it would be appropriate to flush the preferences to disk when the user has explicitly saved a perspective.

Comment 6 Paul Webster

2006-09-29 09:07:48 EDT

investigate preference save request.

PW

Comment 7 Udo Walker

2015-09-24 11:51:46 EDT

This works in Eclipse Mars.

Comment 8 Eclipse Genie

2020-05-11 12:35:13 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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Comment 9 Karsten Thoms

2020-05-11 13:18:58 EDT

Setting to FIXED according to comment#7