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I've recently upgraded to Eclipse 4. 2 and right-clicking on the buttons from the toolbar no longer brings up the context menu which allowed me to customize the perspective. Right-clicking in other places in Eclipse works and I can customize the perspective using Window -> Customize perspective. Using OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64, Gnome 3.2 , GTK 2.20 . Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers. Version: Juno Release Build id: 20120510-1218
Same story for me, but I observed the bug on both Mac OS X 10.7.3 and Windows XP.
Same for me. I've noticed that I can go to Window->Customize Perspective... though, however under Command Groups Availability the Toolbar and Menubar details are not displayed. Also, even if I disable the Debug icons, they reappear (I don't want my debug icons up there :) ) Eclipse Platform 4.2.0 under Windows 7 64-bit
Same platform here, Win7x64 with Juno. The toolbar is twice the height it was in Indigo, mostly because the toolbar and the search/perspecitives combo aren't on the same row. I really don't think this was a "feature" - pretty sure it is a bug.
*** Bug 373007 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fix is trivial, patch follows.
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/42375
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/42375 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=af3f1582dedfe2470b0be6f262cc55533ea35cff
Very nice solution. Thanks Andrey.
Verified in I20150318-2000
This bug is not fixed. The request was to have a context menu on tool bar items like in 3.x. The context menu entry on the perspective switcher is too hard to find for the casual user.
Not sure if someone plans to work on this for M7, removing target.
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/46064
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/46064 was merged to [R4_4_maintenance]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=95c13bb10c5b707e1add5e9799c8ae1e370c6462
I have no idea how to put a right context menu on arbitrary toolbar items.
The Toolbar renderer class can be used for that but we need to ensure not to implement that for RCP applications.
Any news on this?
We currently do not plan to offer that. You can use the Customize Perspective command for that. This can be accessed via Quick Access therefore you and reach it very fast.
@Lars This wasn't a feature request, this was a bug! Saying "We currently do not plan to offer that" makes no sense in this context. I strongly recommend reopening this ticket and actually fixing this regression bug.
Platform behavior at least on Windows and Mac is that commands to customize a UI object are in the context menu. Quick Access is not a replacement for the normal interaction patterns.
Can this be considered for reopening? It is quite natural to right-click to remove toolbar items, as seen in many other programs. Also, this used to work in Eclipse 3.x so this is a regression. It's OK if current Platform UI committers do not want to commit to doing it but at least it would be good to know if such contribution would be welcomed. In that case, the bug could be reopened and tagged with Help wanted.
(In reply to Marc-Andre Laperle from comment #20) > Can this be considered for reopening? It is quite natural to right-click to > remove toolbar items, as seen in many other programs. Also, this used to > work in Eclipse 3.x so this is a regression. > > It's OK if current Platform UI committers do not want to commit to doing it > but at least it would be good to know if such contribution would be > welcomed. In that case, the bug could be reopened and tagged with Help > wanted. Patches are definitely welcome
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. -- The automated Eclipse Genie.
What a disgrace. We flagged this almost immediately after the behavior broke back in 2012, and look at that - eight years later this 5-min-to-fix bug is still bouncing around. Shameful. Very glad I've moved on from Eclipse.
I think this bug is important enough to keep open...
Please reopen if the problem still persists.
(In reply to Lars Vogel from comment #25) > Please reopen if the problem still persists. It does
forgot to change the status in the same submit
