I’ve been a long time eclipse user since 3.0. What has buggered me since that time is the mysterious toolbar – there is no way to turn it off! Since I think around eclipse 3.3 they added an option on the right click menu to “Hide Toolbar”, but that is only temporary. The toolbar creeps right back in on restart!
After some LONG time struggle with the eclipse PDE (Plug-in Development Environment), I finally rolled out this little plug-in that hides the toolbar for me on eclipse start up.
Man, I still cannot believe how much time it took to actually write a simple plug-in like this! Maybe that’s a reason why the eclipse plug-in scene hasn’t seen much advances lately – there’s too darn little resources! I mean, for the most of us, digging through API and classes manually aren’t the most pleasant thing to do.
Please go check out the Google Code project page or use this update site directly:
https://kizzx2.com/eclipse/hide-toolbar/updates/
P.S. I probably will write some ecilpse plug-in tutorials later, if I feel like it. So please stay tuned!
