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Currently in Eclipse 3.1.1 a developer can programmatically save a newly modified perspective (i.e. call showView on the page defined by the perspective and then call savePerspectiveAs on that perspective). This works great for creating a new perspective with a customized layout. It would also be useful to, in addition to layout, allow the perpective label, imageDescriptor, and description to be customized as well. Of course it would need to be noted in the javadocs that these set methods would not get cached and persisted unless savePerspectiveAs was called subsequent to calling one of these methods. Updated required to realize this are listed below: 1) Update org.eclipse.ui.IPerspectiveDescriptor to include the new API: public void setDescription(String description); public void setImageDescriptor(ImageDescriptor); public void setLabel(String label); add JavaDoc stating that nothing is persisted or cached when invoking the set methods on the descriptor, and that the user of this API should call savePerspectiveAs if they wish the data to be cached in the user's workspace 2) Update org.eclipse.ui.internal.PerspectiveDescriptor to implement the APIs above.
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Changes requested on bug 193523
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