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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
2<welcomePage
3 title="Eclipse Platform">
4 <intro>This page will help familiarize you with the Eclipse Workbench.
5To get started, read the sections below and click on the related links. </intro>
6
7<item><b>Installed Features </b>
8To find out more about the features installed in your workbench, choose <action pluginId="org.eclipse.ui" class="org.eclipse.ui.internal.QuickStartAction">Help > Welcome...</action>
9and select the feature you are interested in.</item>
10
11<item><b>Perspectives, views and editors </b>
12A window contains one or more perspectives. A perspective consists of views (e.g. Navigator)
13and editors for working with your resources.
14
15The shortcut bar at the far left of the window allows you to open new perspectives and move
16between perspectives that are already open. The perspective you are currently working with
17is shown in the title of the window and in the shortcut bar as a pushed-in icon.</item>
18
19<item><b>Configuring your perspectives</b>
20You can move views and editors around the workbench by dragging their titlebars. You can
21also add more views to your current perspective by using Window > Show View.
22To reset the perspective to its original state, choose <action pluginId="org.eclipse.ui" class="org.eclipse.ui.internal.ResetPerspectiveAction">Window > Reset Perspective</action>.
23
24Once you have arranged your perspective, you can save it using Window > Save Perspective As....
25You can customize the views, perspectives and New menu operations that show up for
26your perspective. To do this choose <action pluginId="org.eclipse.ui" class="org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditActionSetsAction">Window > Customize Perspective...</action> . A view can
27additionally be converted into a Fast View by dragging it to the shortcut bar (at the
28far left of the window). </item>
29
30<item><b>Learn more </b>
31To learn more you can browse the <topic id="/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/toc.xml">Workbench User Guide</topic>.</item>
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34</welcomePage>
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