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Currently there is a progress dialog that monitors (background) Jobs. The dialog can be "hidden" by checking the flag "Always run in background" which is part of the dialog. The dialog will then ALWAYS be hidden regardless of the type of job or the intention of the submitter of the Job. We need an API that allows the submitter of the Job to control the progress dialog. See also: Bug 146205 - Run in Background should be on by default
+1 Our plugin is in form of a new perspective with thoroughly thought actions and notifications, it needs a way to report the progress and all the progress details of our jobs, and we don't want to be dependent on "Always run in background option". Blindly changing the defaults in 4.7 giving no alternative solution breaks the idea of seeing Eclipse as something more than an IDE.
Our plugins were created with the intention to show visual feedback when users perform actions that result in long-running jobs. This was achieved by calling job.setUser(true) and having the progress dialog show up (unless specifically hidden by the user using "Always run in background" option). At the moment, the platform doesn't seem to provide any alternative for showing job progress in a eye-catching/blatant way.
(In reply to Wim Jongman from comment #0) > We need an API that allows the submitter of the Job to control the progress > dialog. +1 We also ATM use setUser(true), but would like a *reliable* and *uniform* way to report to the user that a long-running operation is in progress that cannot be missed as easily as a job in the status bar.
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Still relevant.
