Description Steve Northover 2004-02-19 12:35:51 EST

The "Perspecive switching tabs" are really not tabs even though they perform 
exactly the same function as tabs in a tab folder. Perspective tabs are 
implemented using a tool bar.

Most people work from left to right.  For example, in a hierarchy view, the 
classes and methods are on the left and the text editor is on the right.  So, 
people are used to going to either the left of a window to get functionality.  
By moving the "perspective tabs" to the top right, when a user wants to switch 
perspecives (say going from "Java" to "CVS", which is something you do quite a 
lot), the mouse just isn't in the right place.  Try it and watch how you need 
to continually move to the upper right.

One solution would be to work in separate windows but staying in the same 
window but this has problems that I have yet to issolate on Windows and is 
generally slower.  If you can stay in the same window, then life is usually 
better.