Unable to dock perspective bar on the left in Eclipse Juno

Question

This page says that I should be able to dock my perspective bar in Eclipse Juno on the left, just the way I've been doing it in Indigo, Helios and previous versions.

Except that the menu I get when I right-click on a perspective button in the perspective bar, only includes the following options:

• close
• show text

Has anyone else run into this -- is there something wrong with my configuration or workspace? Or is it time for me to submit a bug?

(I'm using this release: 20120614-1722 )

It seems like this feature will be implemented in M20120809-1200/4.2.1/Juno SR1. See this comment on eclipse bug 383599.

Answer 1

Dock functionality is not available in Eclipse 4.2 - only in Eclipse 3.8

See comment #3 at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=383599#c3

Answer 2

I'm currently in the process of enhancing the DnD for trim elements to include the Perspective Switcher (as well as tool bars and most of the rest of the trim). Hopefully this will make it into the SR1 release in September.

Note that we won't be putting the 'Dock on Left' context menu back though since we're trying to reduce the complexity by only having one way to do things...

Answer 3

I wouldn't rely on the online documentation for specific information, I think large chunks of it are just copied over from previous releases into a new folder and left there.

I've been confused a few times by this fact too (in my case it was also concerning the UI configuration).

The page you supplied in your link is indeed labelled Juno (4.2) but as eugener mentioned this feature is for the 3.x (Indigo).