Remove Rust perspective

[mickaelistria]

The Rust perspective seems to bring nothing over default Resources and Debug ones. It would probably be better to remove it if it doesn't add value.

[akurtakov]

Fully agreed. @norru @Boereck wdyt?

[serjiokov]

Hello, I think specific perspective may exist for Rust Development in further it will aggregate some rust specific viewers.
I've prepared fix to switch Rust Perspective from New Project Wizard.

[mickaelistria]

I think as long as there are no specific view, we should bother with the perspective.
Extra views could also be added by default as perspective extensions on the resource views if necessary.
If we need to re-implement a perspective later, it's all fine. It will be even better as we'll have a use-case for it to drive to a better implementation, while we currently have no reason for it.

I've prepared fix to switch Rust Perspective from New Project Wizard.

What's the added value over current state?

[serjiokov]

What's the added value over current state?

I mean prepared on the local branch:

• in plugin.xml : preferredPerspectives="org.eclipse.corrosion.rustPerspective"
• in NewCargoProjectWizard: usage of BasicNewProjectResourceWizard.updatePerspective(configuration);

[serjiokov]

As I see the fix not needed. Right?

[mickaelistria]

At the moment, I think it's better for end-users and maintainers to remove the perspective and stick to the Resource one; unless we have a compelling use-case for it.
That doesn't prevent from re-introducing a perspective later when we think there is enough value to justify it, but at the moment, this doesn't seem to be the case.

[serjiokov]

Ok, we can define defualt or prefered perspective like Resouces or C++ or you other, (could you suggest?) and swirch to it.

[norru]

@serjiokov I would not like C++ as it would be misleading. Would prefer Resource..

[serjiokov]

Resource perspective quite simple without launch toolbar. It is not friendly to me. Any ideas?

[serjiokov]

[norru]

I'm not familiar with this. Is it not possible to pre-add the launch toolbar to the existing perspective?

[norru]

@mickaelistria @serjiokov I have been mulling over this for a bit. I am no longer sure removing the perspective is a good idea

The problem here is that users would expect something to contain the Rust environment, and that something for Eclipse users is possibly expected to be a pre-defined "custom" perspective. In fact, I find it handy and reassuring to have the little "R" logo on the top right just to switch back to Rust coding after say, moving to the Debug perspective or to some other ones I may have around (ie in my case GLSL tools)

There is some sort of "branding" power we'd lose if we removed it.

Perhaps we should reconsider?

[mickaelistria]

There is some sort of "branding" power we'd lose if we removed it.

Do we (developers) and users need this power right now? Maintaining such power has a cost for us (which in that case I'm not likely to pay); it also has a cost for users because of multiplication of perspectives which some users hate.
In my experience, and I did work a lot on branded plugins in the IDE with JBoss Tools, users actually prefer simplicity over branding which is perceived as noise unless it provides them added-value, ie make them often more productive.

[norru]

(which in that case I'm not likely to pay)

Fair enough, scarce resource means prioritization. However, we may have revisit the perspective implementation in a few months and see if there is any feedback on the lack of a "dedicated" space.

[mickaelistria]

I've opened #219 and #220 to cover sub-parts of the discussion. Let's try to keep things separated for easier tracking and progress.

[mickaelistria]

Done a few months ago.