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As a user I want to edit files while my IDE is working in the background. When Eclipse has noticed (major) changes to the files in the workspace it starts to "Updating workspace" in a background thread. So far so good. However, when I open a file and want to type in the editor I get a modal progress popup blocking any input to the editor, preventing me to do any work. Not only is this totally unnecessary, it hurts my productivity, it looses things I have typed, and it is utterly frustrating that in 2020 I can't type on my computer and have it do some administrative work in the background. This blockage happens for any file: HTML, Java, .properties, etc.
Something must be locking your workspace, due to the many plugins and interactions it is hard to guess where the problem results from. Could you enable 'UI Freeze Monitoring', Preferences > General > UI Freeze Monitoring. This should produce stack-traces in your .log file that help analyzing why the freezes occur. Can you attach the log/stack-traces as attachment to this bug?
It is not that the UI freezes (i.e. a macOS beach ball appearing), but rather that the UI is blocked by a modal progress window popping up at indiscriminate times. I've enabled the setting, but I doubt it will provide relevant data for this particular issue. I have the popup consistently appearing whenever I edit an .properties file using the JBoss Tools Properties Editor in the source view: modify, save, after a second or so the modal progress window pops up for a brief interval. However, the properties editing is not the only time the progress window pops up and blocks my working, so I still treat this as a generic issue with Eclipse.
I think this is a dup of Bug 329657. And I agree that current behavior is not good. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 329657 ***
Created attachment 283868 [details] Screenshot of building workspace blocking user Create a new package, package wizards pops up, try to start typing, ECLIPSE BLOCKS MY INPUT.
