Eclipse’s architecture is designed to be highly adaptable to your needs. This philosophy carries over to the interface. In the Windows menu, Eclipse offers several ways to change perspectives to suit how you work. These various options allow you to change menu items, toolbar items, and which views are associated with which perspectives, and to create new perspectives.
Your menu options and toolbar icons can be changed in Customize Perspectives. These changes affect the perspective currently being used. They are not universal.
This view allows you to make items available in the File | New menu, the Window | Open Perspective menu, and the Window | Show view menu. You may have noticed that the default setting for those three menus is a bit skimpy. For example, when you create a new document in the PHP perspective, the only shortcut available is PHP File. Similarly, in Open Perspective, the only option available is Other...
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