Let’s say I have some view called My View. I know I can create

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Asked: June 3, 20262026-06-03T08:14:57+00:00 2026-06-03T08:14:57+00:00

Let’s say I have some view called My View. I know I can create

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Let’s say I have some view called “My View”.
I know I can create a category, “My Category”, and place my view inside it.
I’d like to create a subfolder/category inside “My Category” called “Sub Folder” and place my view inside it.
Then the view would be found through the “Show View” popup as follows:

My Category -> Sub Folder -> My View

I know you can do this with exports/imports, but it doesn’t seem like you can with views.

Here is a sample plugin.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?eclipse version="3.4"?>
<plugin>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.views">
      <category
            name="My Category"
            id="My_Category">
      </category>
      <category
            id="My_Sub_Folder"
            name="Sub Folder"
            parentCategory="My_Category">
      </category>
      <view
            name="My View"
            icon="icons/sample.gif"
            category="My_Sub_Folder"
            class="sample_plugin.views.SampleView"
            id="sample_plugin.views.SampleView">
      </view>
   </extension>
</plugin>

However, when I use the plugin.xml above, the view category does not show up and the view is found in the “Other” category. If I change the view category back to “My_Category”, the view shows up in the parent category.