Given that Plugins provide Editors to display the data and Views to provide sets of controls for some functionality, a Perspective is an arrangement of Editors and Views. Within the application framework, there is nothing to stop any View or any Editor being available or being displayed in any Perspective. A Perspective is a default arrangement that can itself be modified as appropriate. Each Nifty application will attempt to save the current perspective and screen arrangement on exit. Figure 1. shows the screen with some Views and Editors loaded.

Figure 1. The Main Screen contains a central Editor, and several Views. A perspective is an arrangement of Editors and Views.

In addition, Views can be moved by dragging the title bar of each plugin, and then docked on the top, right, bottom or left side of the Editor area, and can also be detatched and placed outside of the main window.

Figure 2. Plugins can be re-arranged and even moved outside the main window.

The Nifty applications may come with several Perspectives. These can be accessed by clicking on "Window" and then "Open Perspective".