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Bug 472704

Summary:	[client] do not show popups if Eclipse has no focus
Product:	[Technology] EPP	Reporter:	Marcel Bruch <marcel.bruch>
Component:	Automated Error Reporting Client (AERI)	Assignee:	EPP Error Reports <error-reports-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	d_manta, Lars.Vogel, schierlm, torkildr
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	4.5.1RC1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/53038 https://git.eclipse.org/c/epp/org.eclipse.epp.logging.git/commit/?id=34ad9b1cdea7837d8d087352eb1434cec10571b8
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Description Marcel Bruch

2015-07-15 05:53:11 EDT

Submission from the user feedback form:
 
It is quite annoying when a long-running task (like dependency resolution in the "Add new software") is running, I put Eclipse in the background, only that it pops up a detected UI freeze which appears above even other programs (and stays there, covering a part of my web browser for example). And since it is "waiting for focus" I cannot even get rid of it except cancelling the task in the foreground, so I'm busy moving all my other windows so that they are not covered until the software update is finished...

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No showing any popup iff Eclipse has no focus may make sense and is something to consider for SR1. 

At very least the popup should be disposable by pressing X (I wonder that this does not work, but...)


Gathering feedback of others first before taking actions.

Comment 1 Torkild Resheim

2015-07-15 06:54:59 EDT

+1 to not showing a popup of Eclipse does not have focus. This is also quite annoying when having multiple Eclipse instances up and Mylyn Tasks pops up a pile of notifications in the bottom right corner when one is doing something else.

Comment 2 Lars Vogel

2015-07-15 11:31:05 EDT

+1 for not showing it without focus.

Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2015-08-03 04:26:31 EDT

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/53038

Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2015-08-03 06:27:23 EDT

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/53038 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/epp/org.eclipse.epp.logging.git/commit/?id=34ad9b1cdea7837d8d087352eb1434cec10571b8

Comment 5 Daniel Manta

2016-07-13 08:43:07 EDT

I have the same problem. It gets stuck and Finish button does nothing. You run the default installation of Eclipse for Android and get lots of errors and non-sense like this popup freezing installing forever.

Comment 6 Marcel Bruch

2016-07-13 09:56:47 EDT

Daniel, which version do you use?
Can you provide steps that allow me to reproduce your problem. From the description I can't reproduce (and fix).