Bug 277247 - [Progress] ProgressMonitorDialog should support details area
Summary: [Progress] ProgressMonitorDialog should support details area
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Reported: 2009-05-20 20:13 EDT by Henrik Lindberg CLA
Modified: 2019-09-06 16:10 EDT (History)
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2009-05-21 07:28 EDT, Prakash Rangaraj CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Henrik Lindberg CLA 2009-05-20 20:13:17 EDT 
When running test connection on a site it is interesting to see what it is actually doing. Now the information is flashing in the lower right corner. Suggest that the dialog has a details button, and that detailed progress is displayed as this is a helpful tool in figuring out what is wrong if things are slow.
Comment 1 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-05-20 23:27:15 EDT 
I'm going to take the liberty of moving this bug to platform UI for comment.
What is requested is the "details area" function of ProgressMonitorJobsDialog to be available in the foreground ProgressMonitorDialog.

This seems reasonable given the IProgressMonitor API supports detail via subtasks.  I don't see that the detail necessarily depends on running the code in a job.
Comment 2 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-05-20 23:46:41 EDT 
Makes sense to me.
Comment 3 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2009-05-21 07:11:19 EDT 
The details button is useful when there are more tasks running (in the case of ProgressMonitorJobsDialog, a number of jobs). But ProgressMonitorDialog, needs to show the details of only one task. Can't it be done with the names of the SubProgressMonitor (assuming all the subtasks are using a SubProgressMonitor)?
Comment 4 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2009-05-21 07:28:06 EDT 
Created attachment 136646 [details]
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Comment 5 John Arthorne CLA 2009-05-21 09:03:03 EDT 
I think clients can get this today using IProgressService@busyCursorWhile (which despite the name shows a dialog after enough time has elapsed).
Comment 6 John Arthorne CLA 2009-05-21 09:20:24 EDT 
There is of course also the problem that ProgressMonitorDialog lives in JFace where there is no awareness of jobs, etc. I suggest this should be WONTFIX, and if people want a dialog that shows jobs in the details area, use IProgressService.
Comment 7 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-05-21 14:22:22 EDT 
It's not that we want to show jobs in this dialog, is that we could show details about the subtasks.
Comment 8 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2009-05-22 02:42:08 EDT 
(In reply to comment #7)
> It's not that we want to show jobs in this dialog, is that we could show
> details about the subtasks.
> 

   The screenshot I've attached provides details about the SubTasks. Isn't that enough? If not, can you provide a mock up of what you are expecting in the details?
Comment 9 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:10:54 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.