Working with perspectives

Perspectives define the initial set and layout of views in the Workbench window. They provide a set of functionality aimed at accomplishing a specific type of task or working with specific types of resources.

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Perspectives
Views
Fast views
Detached views

Switching between perspectives
Specifying the default perspective
Opening perspectives
Changing where perspectives open
Showing and hiding menu items and toolbar buttons
Configuring perspective command groups
Configuring perspective shortcuts
Saving a user defined perspective
Deleting a user defined perspective
Resetting perspectives