I've laid out some initial AudioMan and Durham Quick Editor user interfaces. Since both products use the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) I decided to use perspectives and views. Unfortunately views come with tabs (Eclipse calls them view titles) that I don't need or want.

Here are some screenshots:

AudioMan	Quick Editor

Here are the same screenshots with the view titles surgically removed with Adobe Photoshop:

AudioMan	Quick Editor

There's a very old Eclipse feature request to be able to programmatically remove the titles from views but it doesn't look like it's getting much attention.

I may have to modify the org.eclipse.ui.views package to make my own titleless view in the meantime. In these cases the views look much better without titles.

Update 9:55AM: Here's the code I'm using to make the AudioMan Browsing Perspective that has tabs:

public void createInitialLayout(IPageLayout layout) {
   String editorArea = layout.getEditorArea();
   layout.setEditorAreaVisible(false);
   layout.setFixed(true);

   IFolderLayout topMiddle = layout.createFolder("topMiddle", IPageLayout.TOP, 0.50f, editorArea);
   topMiddle.addView(ArtistView.ID);

   IFolderLayout topLeft = layout.createFolder("topLeft", IPageLayout.LEFT, 0.33f, "topMiddle");
   topLeft.addView(SourceView.ID);

   IFolderLayout topRight = layout.createFolder("topRight", IPageLayout.RIGHT, 0.50f, "topMiddle");
   topRight.addView(AlbumView.ID);

   layout.addView(TrackView.ID, IPageLayout.BOTTOM, 0.50f, editorArea);
}

Update 10:12AM: I figured it out. The IFolderLayout distracted me from the solution -- you can put the view IDs right in the refid parameter, like this:

public void createInitialLayout(IPageLayout layout) {
   String editorArea = layout.getEditorArea();
   layout.setEditorAreaVisible(false);
   layout.setFixed(true);

   layout.addStandaloneView(ArtistView.ID, false, IPageLayout.TOP, 0.50f, editorArea);
   layout.addStandaloneView(SourceView.ID, false, IPageLayout.LEFT, 0.33f, ArtistView.ID);
   layout.addStandaloneView(AlbumView.ID, false, IPageLayout.RIGHT, 0.50f, ArtistView.ID);
   layout.addStandaloneView(TrackView.ID, false, IPageLayout.BOTTOM, 0.50f, editorArea);
}

Now the GUIs look like the second set of screenshots. Woohoo.