Bug 7311

Summary:	[Perspectives] EC: Specify placeholder via perspectiveExtension ext. point
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Simon Arsenault <simon_arsenault>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	investigate
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	2.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Simon Arsenault

2002-01-07 11:17:00 EST

The following request came in the eclipse corner newsgroup.

> > "Paul North" <thepaulnorth@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:9v82b8$t92$1@rogue.oti.com...
> > > Hi gang,
<<...snip...>>
> > > Also, when I open the Debug perspective my view is there automatically.
> > > How can I make it show only when the user clicks on Perspective/Show
> > > View/mypluginview?
> > >

SA> We should add an attribute called "visible" to the perspectiveExtension 
extension point when adding a view. By default, the value would be true so to 
be backward compatible. If set to false, then a placeholder is added to the 
perspective layout, instead of the actual view.

Comment 1 Simon Arsenault

2002-01-25 09:28:30 EST

If we have time, we should do this...

Comment 2 Randy Giffen

2002-08-08 17:20:40 EDT

Reopen for investigation

Comment 3 Nick Edgar

2004-11-15 12:14:46 EST

This has been in there since 2.1.