diff --git a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.datamanager/plugin.xml b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.datamanager/plugin.xml
index bb40bcb058..9519ef5892 100644
--- a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.datamanager/plugin.xml
+++ b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.datamanager/plugin.xml
@@ -1,32 +1,29 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <?eclipse version="3.0"?>
 <plugin>
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.views">
-    <category
-      name="MITK General"
-      id="org.mitk.views.general"/>
     <view
       id="org.mitk.views.datamanager"
       name="Data Manager"
       category="Data handling"
       icon="resources/data-manager.svg"
       class="QmitkDataManagerView" />
   </extension>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.preferencePages">
     <page id="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.DataManagerPreferencePage" name="Data Manager" class="QmitkDataManagerPreferencePage">
       <keywordreference id="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.DataManagerPreferencePageKeywords"></keywordreference>
     </page>
     <page id="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.DataManagerHotkeysPrefPage" name="Hotkeys" class="QmitkDataManagerHotkeysPrefPage" category="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.DataManagerPreferencePage">
       <keywordreference id="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.DataManagerHotkeysPrefPageKeywords"></keywordreference>
     </page>
   </extension>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.keywords">
     <keyword id="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.DataManagerPreferencePageKeywords" label="data manager global reinit surface decimation parent helper objects single click property editing nodes top show containing data deleted added call"></keyword>
     <keyword id="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.DataManagerHotkeysPrefPageKeywords" label="data manager hotkeys delete selected nodes global reinit invisible show information toggle visibility selected"></keyword>
   </extension>
 
   <extension-point id="contextMenuActions" name="Context menu actions"/>
 
 </plugin>
diff --git a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.datamanagerlight/plugin.xml b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.datamanagerlight/plugin.xml
index 083781134e..408af1edf3 100644
--- a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.datamanagerlight/plugin.xml
+++ b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.datamanagerlight/plugin.xml
@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <?eclipse version="3.0"?>
 <plugin>
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.views">
-    <category
-      id="org.mitk.views.general"
-      name="MITK General"/>
     <view
       id="org.mitk.views.datamanagerlight"
       name="Data  Manager Light"
       category="General"
       icon="resources/DataManagerLight.png"
       class="QmitkDataManagerLightView" />
   </extension>
 
 </plugin>
diff --git a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.imagecropper/plugin.xml b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.imagecropper/plugin.xml
index 3e3733278e..b97af3cd8e 100644
--- a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.imagecropper/plugin.xml
+++ b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.imagecropper/plugin.xml
@@ -1,30 +1,27 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <?eclipse version="3.0"?>
 
 <plugin>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.views">
-    <category
-      id="org.mitk.views.general"
-      name="MITK General"/>
     <view
       id="org.mitk.views.imagecropper"
       name="Image Cropper"
       category="General"
       icon="resources/crop.svg"
       class="QmitkImageCropper" >
       <description>Crop images to a given size</description>
       <keywordReference id="org.mitk.views.xnat.imagecropper.ViewKeyword"/>
     </view>
   </extension>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.keywords">
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.imagecropper.ViewKeyword"  label="Size" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.imagecropper.ViewKeyword"  label="Match Size" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.imagecropper.ViewKeyword"  label="Resizing" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.imagecropper.ViewKeyword"  label="Changing Dimension" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.imagecropper.ViewKeyword"  label="Image Dimension" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.imagecropper.ViewKeyword"  label="Image cropping" />
   </extension>
 
 </plugin>
diff --git a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.measurementtoolbox/plugin.xml b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.measurementtoolbox/plugin.xml
index 45a8fc7f7d..d0dbe1dca2 100644
--- a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.measurementtoolbox/plugin.xml
+++ b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.measurementtoolbox/plugin.xml
@@ -1,45 +1,42 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <?eclipse version="3.0"?>
 <plugin>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.views">
-    <category
-      id="org.mitk.views.general"
-      name="MITK General"/>
     <view id="org.mitk.views.measurement"
           name="Measurement"
           category="Quantification"
           icon="resources/measurement.png"
           class="QmitkMeasurementView" >
       <description>Measure distance and areas in the image</description>
       <keywordReference id="org.mitk.views.measurement.Keyword"/>
     </view>
   </extension>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.views">
     <view id="org.mitk.views.imagestatistics"
           name="Statistics"
           category="Quantification"
           class="QmitkImageStatisticsView"
           icon="resources/bar-chart.svg" >
       <description>Calculate the statistic of image regions</description>
       <keywordReference id="org.mitk.views.imagestatistics.Keyword"/>
     </view>
   </extension>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.keywords">
     <keyword label="Planar Figure" id="org.mitk.views.measurement.Keyword"/>
     <keyword label="Measurement" id="org.mitk.views.measurement.Keyword"/>
     <keyword label="Circle" id="org.mitk.views.measurement.Keyword"/>
     <keyword label="Line" id="org.mitk.views.measurement.Keyword"/>
     <keyword label="Length" id="org.mitk.views.measurement.Keyword"/>
     <keyword label="Area" id="org.mitk.views.measurement.Keyword"/>
-    
+
     <keyword label="Mean" id="org.mitk.views.imagestatistics.Keyword"/>
     <keyword label="Statistic" id="org.mitk.views.imagestatistics.Keyword"/>
     <keyword label="Grey Value" id="org.mitk.views.imagestatistics.Keyword"/>
     <keyword label="Variance" id="org.mitk.views.imagestatistics.Keyword"/>
     <keyword label="Std Dev" id="org.mitk.views.imagestatistics.Keyword"/>
-  </extension>  
-  
+  </extension>
+
 </plugin>
diff --git a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.multilabelsegmentation/plugin.xml b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.multilabelsegmentation/plugin.xml
index 3862c67381..3d00fc9e59 100644
--- a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.multilabelsegmentation/plugin.xml
+++ b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.multilabelsegmentation/plugin.xml
@@ -1,43 +1,40 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <?eclipse version="3.0"?>
 <plugin>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.views">
-    <category
-      id="org.mitk.views.general"
-      name="MITK General"/>
     <view id="org.mitk.views.multilabelsegmentation"
       name="MultiLabel Segmentation"
       icon="resources/multilabelsegmentation.png"
       class="QmitkMultiLabelSegmentationView" />
 
     <view id="org.mitk.views.multilabelsegmentationutilities"
       name="MultiLabel Segmentation Utilities"
       class="QmitkMultiLabelSegmentationUtilitiesView"
       icon="resources/MultiLabelSegmentationUtilities_48x48.png" />
 
   </extension>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.preferencePages">
     <page id="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.MultiLabelSegmentationPreferencePage" name="MultiLabel Segmentation" class="QmitkMultiLabelSegmentationPreferencePage">
       <keywordreference id="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.MultiLabelSegmentationPreferencePageKeywords"></keywordreference>
     </page>
   </extension>
 
    <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.keywords">
     <keyword id="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.MultiLabelSegmentationPreferencePageKeywords" label="multi segmentation label multilabel multilabelsegmentation 2d display 3d outline draw transparent overlay show volume rendering data node selection mode enable auto-selection mode smoothed surface creation smoothing value decimation rate"></keyword>
   </extension>
 
   <extension point="org.mitk.gui.qt.datamanager.contextMenuActions">
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="ImageMask" label="Create polygon model" icon="" smoothed="false" class="QmitkCreatePolygonModelAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="ImageMask" label="Create smoothed polygon model" icon="" smoothed = "true" class="QmitkCreatePolygonModelAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="ImageMask" label="Autocrop" icon="" class="QmitkAutocropAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="ImageMask" label="Convert to Label" icon="" class="QmitkConvertMaskToLabelAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="Surface" label="Convert to Label" icon="" class="QmitkConvertSurfaceToLabelAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="Image" label="Create Segmentation" icon="" class="QmitkCreateMultiLabelSegmentationAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="Image" label="Convert to Segmentation" icon="" class="QmitkConvertToMultiLabelSegmentationAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="LabelSetImage" label="Create Preset" icon="" class="QmitkCreateMultiLabelPresetAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="LabelSetImage" label="Load Preset" icon="" class="QmitkLoadMultiLabelPresetAction" />
   </extension>
 
 </plugin>
diff --git a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.python/plugin.xml b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.python/plugin.xml
index 3cea1e2e56..9629c07384 100644
--- a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.python/plugin.xml
+++ b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.python/plugin.xml
@@ -1,24 +1,21 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <?eclipse version="3.0"?>
 <plugin>
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.views">
-    <category
-      id="org.mitk.views.general"
-      name="MITK General"/>
     <view
       id="org.mitk.views.python"
       name="Python Console"
       category="General"
       icon="resources/Python.png"
       class="QmitkPythonView" >
       <description>Allow the acces of python from MITK</description>
       <keywordReference id="org.mitk.views.python.Keyword"/>
     </view>
   </extension>
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.keywords">
     <keyword label="Python" id="org.mitk.views.python.Keyword"/>
     <keyword label="Scripting" id="org.mitk.views.python.Keyword"/>
     <keyword label="Programming" id="org.mitk.views.python.Keyword"/>
     <keyword label="Automatic" id="org.mitk.views.python.Keyword"/>
   </extension>
 </plugin>
diff --git a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.segmentation/plugin.xml b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.segmentation/plugin.xml
index 15a38ef63c..e8048aaedb 100644
--- a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.segmentation/plugin.xml
+++ b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.segmentation/plugin.xml
@@ -1,97 +1,94 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <?eclipse version="3.0"?>
 <plugin>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.views">
-    <category
-      id="org.mitk.views.general"
-      name="MITK General"/>
     <view id="org.mitk.views.segmentation"
       name="Segmentation"
       category="Segmentation"
       icon="resources/segmentation.png"
       class="QmitkSegmentationView" >
       <description>Allows the segmentation of images using different tools.</description>
       <keywordReference id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"/>
     </view>
      <view id="org.mitk.views.deformableclippingplane"
        name="Clipping Plane"
        category="Segmentation"
        class="QmitkDeformableClippingPlaneView"
        icon="resources/deformablePlane.png" >
       <description>Allow the clipping of a volume using a deformable plane.</description>
       <keywordReference id="org.mitk.views.deformableclippingplane.ViewKeyword"/>
     </view>
     <view
       id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities"
       name="Segmentation Utilities"
       category="Segmentation"
       class="QmitkSegmentationUtilitiesView"
       icon="resources/SegmentationUtilities_48x48.png" >
       <description>Edit segmentations using standard operations. </description>
       <keywordReference id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"/>
     </view>
   </extension>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.preferencePages">
     <page id="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.SegmentationPreferencePage" name="Segmentation" class="QmitkSegmentationPreferencePage">
       <keywordreference id="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.SegmentationPreferencePageKeywords"></keywordreference>
     </page>
   </extension>
 
    <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.keywords">
     <keyword id="org.mitk.gui.qt.application.SegmentationPreferencePageKeywords" label="data manager"></keyword>
   </extension>
 
   <extension point="org.mitk.gui.qt.datamanager.contextMenuActions">
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="ImageMask" label="Create polygon model" icon="" smoothed="false" class="QmitkCreatePolygonModelAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="ImageMask" label="Create smoothed polygon model" icon="" smoothed = "true" class="QmitkCreatePolygonModelAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="ImageMask" label="Autocrop" icon="" class="QmitkAutocropAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="LabelSetImage" label="Create polygon model" icon="" smoothed="false" class="QmitkCreatePolygonModelAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="LabelSetImage" label="Create smoothed polygon model" icon="" smoothed = "true" class="QmitkCreatePolygonModelAction" />
     <contextMenuAction nodeDescriptorName="LabelSetImage" label="Autocrop" icon="" class="QmitkAutocropAction" />
   </extension>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.keywords">
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Segmentation" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Otsu" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Correction" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Paint" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Wipe" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Region Growing" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Fill" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Erase" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Live Wire" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Fast Marching" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Threshold" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Watershed" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Picking" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Watershed" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Annotation annote" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Labeling" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentation.ViewKeyword"  label="Tools" />
 
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.deformableclippingplane.ViewKeyword"  label="Plane" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.deformableclippingplane.ViewKeyword"  label="Volumne calculation" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.deformableclippingplane.ViewKeyword"  label="Splitting" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.deformableclippingplane.ViewKeyword"  label="Deformation" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.deformableclippingplane.ViewKeyword"  label="Volume analysis" />
 
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Segmentation" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Difference" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Intersection" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Union" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Image Masking" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Surface Masking" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Dilatation" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Erosion" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Closing" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Opening" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Fill Holes" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Morphological Operations" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Boolean Operations" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Surface to Image" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Surface creation" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.segmentationutilities.ViewKeyword"  label="Surface operations" />
   </extension>
 </plugin>
diff --git a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.volumevisualization/plugin.xml b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.volumevisualization/plugin.xml
index cd07a6e472..2152b8396f 100755
--- a/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.volumevisualization/plugin.xml
+++ b/Plugins/org.mitk.gui.qt.volumevisualization/plugin.xml
@@ -1,40 +1,37 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <?BlueBerry version="0.1"?>
 <plugin>
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.views">
-    <category
-      id="org.mitk.views.general"
-      name="MITK General"/>
     <view
       id="org.mitk.views.volumevisualization"
       name="Volume Visualization"
       class="QmitkVolumeVisualizationView"
       icon="resources/icon.xpm" >
       <description>Configure the 3D-Visualization of images.</description>
       <keywordReference id="org.mitk.views.volumevisualization.ViewKeyword"/>
     </view>
   </extension>
 
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.keywords">
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.volumevisualization.ViewKeyword"  label="Visualisation" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.volumevisualization.ViewKeyword"  label="3D" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.volumevisualization.ViewKeyword"  label="Rendering" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.volumevisualization.ViewKeyword"  label="Volumevisualisation" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.volumevisualization.ViewKeyword"  label="Look-up-table" />
     <keyword id="org.mitk.views.volumevisualization.ViewKeyword"  label="Color Colour" />
   </extension>
 
   <!--This extension points adds the volume visualization view to the
   "Window->Show Views" menu if the visualization perspective is opened-->
   <extension point="org.blueberry.ui.perspectiveExtensions">
             <perspectiveExtension
                  targetID="org.mitk.mitkworkbench.perspectives.visualization">
                  <viewShortcut id="org.mitk.views.volumevisualization"/>
                  <view id="org.mitk.views.volumevisualization"
                              relative="org.mitk.views.datamanager"
                              relationship="bottom"
                              ratio="0.80"
                              visible="false"/>
             </perspectiveExtension>
   </extension>
 </plugin>