I customised the Eclipse tool bar by visiting Window > Customize Perspective > Tool Bar Visibility.
My customisation is automatically messed up in due course. When I try to re-customise, the Tool Bar Visibility window is not synchronised with the current status of the tool bar. This makes customisation is difficult and annoying.
I am using Kepler. The recently released Luna also have the similar behaviour. The Spring Tool Suite (which is basically Eclipse) also have the similar behaviour.
If this is an Eclipse bug, are there any workaround?
If this is not a bug, what am I missing?
[I am using Eclipse on OS X Mavericks]
After making extensive Googling, talking to my colleges and based on my own experience, I came to the following conclusion:
Eclipse has lots and lots of bugs and does not seem to be in active development now. Bugs are filed and kept for a very long time without being fixed. For example THIS BUG IS THERE FOR MORE THAN TEN YEARS and this bug is there since 2013. Eclipse bug tracking system does not easily show the whole list of current bugs.
The following links are worth mentioning:
How to customize the Eclipse toolbars (Kepler or in general)
Things possible in IntelliJ that aren't possible in Eclipse?
http://sebastien-arbogast.com/2009/07/18/why-do-i-hate-eclipse/
http://techdetails.agwego.com/2007/02/23/121/comment-page-1/
http://alblue.bandlem.com/2006/02/eclipserant-10-things-i-hate-about.html#bugs