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Bug 447703

Summary: "Bring console to top when building" should be enabled per default
Product: [Tools] CDT Reporter: Alexander Schwinn <al.schwinn>
Component: cdt-buildAssignee: Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Andrew Gvozdev <angvoz.dev>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3 CC: cdtdoug, jonah, travis.downs, walther
Version: Next   
Target Milestone: 9.3.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://git.eclipse.org/r/98348
https://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git/commit/?id=63ff83042b671f6cf09fe259302eb1d2c6c966a1
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Description Alexander Schwinn CLA 2014-10-17 09:32:07 EDT 
Specially for developers which are new to eclipse this would be nice.

Since years I give lectures on a project which includes using the make-targets in eclipse.
It's always the same, the people press "make all" and wait ... than they press it again because they did not see anything happen ... after the 3rd try they think they did something wrong & ask me for help ... and ofc they blame the tool after they know were to find the console-output.

Even I myself just recently found out that it is possible to enable the setting in the  preference, to bring the console to front automatically.

Actually I cannot imagine why anybody pressing a make-target should not be interested in checking the console-output to see if the make went well.
 
So from my POV, if you want to improve usability, this would be a step forward.
Comment 1 Travis Downs CLA 2017-02-03 16:23:23 EST 
Agreed. This isn't just for new user either, but a convenience for old hacks as well. When I run a build I may have any random window foremost in the same pane as the build console, but I definitely want to know if the build failed.

In Java-land there are boolean options on many of the console windows to "bring on front on stdout" and "bring to front on "stderr",. Something like that would be awesome for the build window as well. Bringing to front on error only is useful when you want to know only when the build failed.
Comment 2 Doug Schaefer CLA 2017-05-31 11:20:54 EDT 
+1. Changing that now.
Comment 3 Eclipse Genie CLA 2017-05-31 11:27:03 EDT 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/98348
Comment 5 Doug Schaefer CLA 2017-05-31 13:06:22 EDT 
Done.
Comment 6 Christian Walther CLA 2017-10-12 08:41:12 EDT 
This caused a regression, see bug 378302.