We might want to discuss whether the state of a perspective should be saved to disk upon closing.

This sounds weird because perspective changes are saved by default. Maybe the application was started again with /BlueBerry.clean?

You do not even need to restart the application. Neither do you need the view navigator.

To reproduce:

1. Start application
2. Open any perspective using Window->Open Perspective
3. Move a view in the perspective around or open a new view
4. Close the perspective using Window->Close Perspective
5. Reopen the perspective using Window->Open Perspective

-> Your changes of step 3 are lost

I am *very* sure that this used to work. Need to verify this with the 2014.03 release (installer).

I researched this a little bit. Explicitly closing the perspective in the menu also resets it. You need to do "Save as..." for the perspective to store its meta-data in a new custom perspective.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10475625/can-a-perspective-be-closed-in-eclipse-without-its-layout-being-reset

Given that there is already a reset button I think we might want to change the behaviour of our close button to do a save as instead of a close.

Given that we have both "Close" and "Save As..." actions in the workbench, I would not change anything here ;-)

Personally I would expect the following behaviour:

• Reset

Perspective is reset to factory default

• Close

Perspective is closed and will be reopened with the same state it is in at the time of closing (similar to just closing and reopening the application)

• Save As

Save the current state as a different perspective, reset the original one to factory default (or even better, last saved state)