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One of my favorite features in a competing IDE was the possibility to define a default windows layout and then quickly restore it using a shortcut. For example, say that most of the time you want to have the editor, project view and navigator open. Now when you build the project, run unit tests and do CVS show changes, the respective windows are opened. At this point it is not possible to quickly return to the default layout - you have to close these windows one by one. I know that you can minimize the windows, but is not the same thing - I don't necessarily want the windows to minimize automatically when I click on the editor, I'd like be able control it myself. It might be a bit difficult to see why this would be that important, but when you are used to have this feature it is a bit difficult to do without. Of course, even better than having just one default layout would be a possibility to define several layouts and access them using a shortcut.
Reassigning to "core".
Partly implemented by "Reset windows" action. However no plans for user's customized version of default layout. If anyone from community wants to work on this, patches are welcomed.