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The combo box that allows switching between perspectives does not appear to be necessary. It is taking up valuable screen real estate in the tool bar, it is completely redundant (because the tools in the vertical toolbar accomplish the switching task, and the title of the window accomplishes the "display current perspective name" task), and it looks pretty awful - even on windows, but on Motif and GTK it is clipped at the bottom (because combos are big and clunky on Motif & GTK) and it drops down pretty horribly (great big ugly drop down list). I cannot actually think of any need at all for this combo. Is it for accessibility? Because SHIFT+TAB seems to be a fast enough way to get to the vertical toolbar (gets you there faster than TAB or CTRL+TAB takes you to the combo). So does this combo box really have a raison d'etre? I think it should just be deleted, to clean up the product (less is more).
+1 I also prefer the old way (icon on fast view). On Linux/Motif (at least on my machine, it truncates the name Resources to "Resou".
Agree with Roderigo. On some Linux Window managers, almosst every item in the toolbar combo box is clipped. Another problem pointed out by SN is that the combo is useless for allowing you to switch between multiple Java perspectives, which is what he does all the time.
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