Bug 53345 - [Contributions] fast way to hide unwanted toolbars
Summary: [Contributions] fast way to hide unwanted toolbars
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.6 M3   Edit
Assignee: Lars Vogel CLA
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Reported: 2004-02-28 05:34 EST by Fabrizio Giustina CLA
Modified: 2015-10-19 06:17 EDT (History)
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Description Fabrizio Giustina CLA 2004-02-28 05:34:34 EST 
Toolbars in eclipse tends to grow incontrollately when you install new plugins.

To remove unused toolbar at the moment you need to: 
- right click anywere on the toolbars
- choose "Customize Perspective"
- go to "commands"
- look for the undesired toolbar (usually browsing the whole list, if you don't 
know the toolbar name)
- deselect it
- apply changes

An addictional "hide toolbar" menu item would help.
So you could simply right click on the toolbar you want to hide. The menu shown 
will be:
  * Hide Toolbar
  * Lock the Toolbars
  * Customize Perspective ...
Selecting "Hide Toolbar" will immediately remove it without having to find it 
on the "commands" page.

Note this is the usual behaviour for toolbars in Windows applications, I think 
this feature should be added along with eclipse 3.0 UI improvements.
Comment 1 Douglas Pollock CLA 2004-03-01 16:57:58 EST 
I'll investigate for M9.
Comment 2 Fabrizio Giustina CLA 2005-09-03 04:05:13 EDT 
This item is still assigned and it was scheduled for eclipse 3.0 M9.
Could somebody reopen it and see if it can be considered for 3.2?
Comment 3 Michael Van Meekeren CLA 2006-04-21 13:56:23 EDT 
Moving Dougs bugs
Comment 4 Benjamin Muskalla CLA 2006-08-13 15:00:12 EDT 
I looked into to source to fix this issue. The problem is that the context menu is set for the CoolBar, not for each Toolbar. So a "hideToolBarAction" has no chance to know on which toolbar the user clicked to select "Hide Toolbar". Any suggestions how to implement this in a nice way?
Comment 5 Paul Webster CLA 2007-04-05 19:02:53 EDT 
Assigning to component owner
PW