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UI currently displays the perspective name in the shell. Can the Icon of the active perspective be promoted to the Shell so that when I Alt+TAB I see the perspective's Icon? Coming from VA-Java and VAME, I like to open a lot of windows. But they all have the same Icon in task bar, and Alt-TAB only displays the text for the currently highlighted Icon. Also, I just noticed that all perspectives share the same 16x16 pixel background with only a portion of the icon distinguishing that perspective from the others. Perspectives are isolated on the side toolbar by separators. I cannot find a place where perspective icons are mixed in with other icons. It seems like the entire 16x16 Icon should be dedicated to distinguishing the perspective. Perhaps the background could be the identifier, with a small decoration indicating it is a perspective. Another alternative, fragmenting the identifier into little mini-views: (Embedded image moved to file: pic18328.pcx) This would make the sidebar much more useful because I could quickly identify the perspectives. I find myself always using the drop-down combo in 2.0.(See attached file: pic18328.pcx)
Your idea about changing the perspective bar to be similiar to the task bar is interesting and we will consider this post 2.0 Perspective icons are being reworked for the 2.0 release.
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Perspective icons look sufficiently unique now and also you are not restricted to using the perspective switcher on the left (as in 2.1) anymore. Having the perspective icon be the shell icon would help for knowing which window has which perspective, however you still could have the same perspective in multiple windows and in addition, you would have the icon be changing often which means when you Alt-Tab you need to re-learn an icon whereas now you can alt-tab to the window with the eclipse icon and read the text associated... this seems like the best compromise.
