RE: [WDSCI-L] Change Icon on Perspective

[Mark Phippard <MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 08/11/2004 10:32:49 AM:

> > 
> > Did you ever get this figured out? I have saved off my own perspective
> and
> > would
> > like to change the icon on it. It is based on the RSE one with
> TurnOver
> > views
> > added in.
> 
> No, and it REALLY ticked me off.  I hear things like "it can't be done",
> which you and I both know is complete bullshit.  Unless it's a hardcoded
> value in some Java class (which means the programmer hardcoded one icon
> for each possible Perspective), then there's a setting somewhere.
> 
> I'm getting worried that the product has gotten so large and/or there's
> been enough outsourcing or turnover that there are now parts of the tool
> that nobody understands.  If it were my team, I'd simply go to the guy
> in charge of the perspective bar (which changes drastically in Eclipse
> 3.0, by the way) and ask him where he gets his icons.  If there is no
> such person, then you've got a serious problem in your project
> management.
> 
> But no, ask me how I REALLY feel... <grumpf>
> 

I do not think anyone has said it cannot be done.  It is just a priority 
issue.  Also, this is an open source project, there are no managers or 
anyone else's ass to kick. 

The icon for a perspective is declared in the plugin.xml of the plugin 
that declares the perspective.  For example, this is the XML that defines 
the RSE perspective:

   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectives">
      <perspective
            name="%Perspective.Explorer"
            icon="./icons/full/cview16/system_persp.gif"
 class="com.ibm.etools.systems.core.ui.view.SystemPerspectiveLayout"
            id="com.ibm.etools.systems.core.ui.view.SystemPerspective">
      </perspective>
   </extension>


The issue is that there is no plugin.xml for perspectives you create 
yourself.  Your perspective is just stored in the pref_store.ini file 
within your workspace .metadata folder and it just points to the 
perspective id you started with for the icon.  They need to enhance this 
to also store a path to an icon, and then of course also create UI for all 
of this to let you define it.  It is doable, but enough work that most 
people are not going to want to bother.


Mark



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