Remove view name from Eclipse menu Window -> Show View

Question

I need to remove the name/shortcut of the view which I have created from the Window->Show View menu and add them as a separate menu.

Is there any way to hide/remove its entry from Window->Show View menu.

Answer 1

You can add/remove any view from the "Show View" menu from the Customize Perspective / Menu Visibility tab:

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To do the same thing programmatically would imply to follow the same course of action than the class org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.CustomizePerspectiveDialog, and look into the method okPressed() for instance:

perspective.setShowViewActionIds(menu.getCheckedItemIds());

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Vlad Ilie mentions in the comments:

as I only needed for the View to be completely inaccessible via usual GUI, activities were enough for me as per this blog post "eEclipse Activities – Hide / Display certain UI elements":

This would mean that programmatically the WorkbenchActivitySupport.setEnabledActivityIds(String[]) method can be used to enable or disable views after they've been introduced into an activity.