| Eclipse Customized Perspective Toolbars (what happened?) [message #1015711] |
Fri, 01 March 2013 21:08  |
 Nicholas Keene
Messages: 4
Registered: February 2013 |
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Hi, I've been using Eclipse on and off for about a decade and it's always been my favorite IDE, especially the flexibility and robustness of the UI. Whereupon recently starting a new project, however, I have had inexplicable problems which I'm sure I never had as long as a decade ago.
I want to change the items in my toolbar on a per-perspective basis. I want certain items for the Java perspective, others for the Debug perspective, and still others for the Synchronize perspective. I'm sure this worked at one point but now it doesn't. Did something happen? Did the community of Eclipse developers do something to the toolbars?
I go to Window -> Customize Perspective... -> and make new selections for what I want displayed. I click OK. Nothing changes; the toolbar does not change. When I go back to Customize Perspective, the original selections are again selected. Repeat the process, same thing.
This is inconsistent: every now and then the items do in fact change as desired. That's nice, but they eventually regress after some time has passed. I haven't detected a pattern yet.
Again, I'm stumped by this because surely this worked a decade ago. I assume this is a bug, but if so why wouldn't the developers simply roll back to old code which worked better than new code? Something doesn't make sense. What could explain such an egregious regression?
As long as I'm asking that question I'll mention my real problem: what I want is for the 'Debug' toolbar item, the one which launches a Debug Configuration, to *always* show the dropdown menu and *never* launch the most-recently-launched Configuration. That is because I have a trio of Configurations to start my software and that damned dropdown triangle is so impossibly small that I miss it and click the Bug maybe one-third of the time. I want to change that behavior but I fear I cannot. The second best alternative is to remove everything except for Bug from the toolbar, since Bug is the only item I ever use.
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 Re: Eclipse Customized Perspective Toolbars (what happened?) [message #1148930 is a reply to message #1074413] |
Mon, 21 October 2013 21:00  |
Nicholas Keene
Messages: 4
Registered: February 2013 |
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I'm back to having this problem again except it's worse. When once again trying to fix a toolbar problem (this time the problem was that no Debug icons were shown and that is a problem when I'm trying to use the debugger) I made the mistake of removing all the items from the toolbar, in the Customize dialog box. Much to my surprise, all the icons actually disappeared -- which is a miracle because the toolbar never ever does what I tell it to. Moments later it was back to its old tricks, however, when I reopened that Customize dialog box and it showed most or all of the normal buttons selected, whereas none of them should have been selected. Now, nothing I do can bring any buttons back. The toolbar is totally empty and can't be changed.
I'm serious when i ask this question: how the heck did this happen? How could Eclipse possibly have a programmer rewrite a subsystem, have that programmer turn in work which is horribly broken and doesn't even begin to do what it is supposed to do, and then (this is the part that gets me) replace the old working code with the new horribly broken code. That's the part I don't get. Eclipse had functioning toolbars for years and years and years, so why not use the code which always worked? Why not wait until the replacement code works before using it?
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