Hi:
I uninstalled the Spket plugin from Eclipse, but there is still an "<Spket IDE>" perspective in the Perspective list. How do I get rid of it? I've made sure there are no more Spket directories under eclipse_dir/plugins, eclipse_dir/features and eclipse_dir/dropins. Where does Eclipse keep a list of its perspectives?
Cheers
It's possible that you can fix this by starting like:
$ eclipse -clean
According to the Tasks->Running Eclipse,
Cleans cached data used by the OSGi framework and Eclipse runtime. Try to run Eclipse once with this option if you observe startup errors after install, update, or using a shared configuration.
If that doesn't work, well,
the Eclipse ui contributions are in XML, originally all in some plugin.xml, which was kind of cool because the UI could then be built up on a fast scan without loading any java from all those plugins. I believe they have evolved a more complicated modularity API in recent years but you may be able to find the guilty file by grepping *.xml and *.properties for Spket.IDE. There is a level of indirection through the .properties files because strings are usually externalized for translation.
Still, you might get somewhere with something like:
grep Spket.IDE `find . -name \*.xml -o -name \*.properties`
Why do not use simple way?
Window → Preferences → General → Perspectives, select Spket IDE and press Delete button.