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Build 20011105. The debug perspective's shortcuts on the Perspective / Show View menu do not include several of the views included in the debug perspective by default. For example, I closed the properties view, then wanted to get it back. I had to go to Perspective / Show View / Other... / Basic / Properties instead of just Perspective / Show View / Properties. Other ones missing: Display, Outline. Also, the order in the menu should be the same as shown in the perspective. For example, currently Variables appears after Inspector in the menu.
Fixed all but the DisplayView. Nick, can you please help out with the Display view? It is supplied by the org.eclipse.jdt.ui plugin. Is there a way to get this view to be shown in the Debug perspective show view menu?
Check out the doc for the org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions extension point. JDT UI should be able to do something like: <extension point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions"> <perspectiveExtension targetID="org.eclipse.debug.ui.DebugPerspective"> <viewShortcut id="org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui.DisplayView"/> </perspectiveExtension> </extension> In fact, they already have a perspectiveExtension to the DebugPerspective to add the Display view. They just need to add the viewShortcut element. (Note the doc is misleading, it uses the term "viewAction", but I believe it should be "viewShortcut")
Fixed. Please verify.
The Display view is not in the correct order in the view menu - it should be after the Inspector. However, not sure if this is fixable, as the view is contributed by another plug-in.
Verified. No way to improve ordering of Display View currently.
Is it true that "the order in the menu should be the same as shown in the perspective"? If so, then the order of the menu will change whenever you move a view. This may cause disorientation. If I want to open a view, and it is visible in the window, I'll just click on the window. If I don't know where it is in the window, and we order the view by position, the user must do a linear search for the view, as the view is really random to the user. Perhaps an alphabetical ordering is better? Perhaps we should implement an MRU algorithm to avoid the Other problem... In any case, this issue is important but probably won't be delt with for a couple of weeks.
