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Bug 52494

Summary: Bouncing icon and slow startup on OS X
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Hal Perkins <hal>
Component: ResourcesAssignee: Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: andre_weinand
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)   
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Description Hal Perkins CLA 2004-02-19 11:23:24 EST 
When Eclipse is launched on OS X, it is sluggish to start up and, even after the main window is 
displayed and the UI starts responding to events, one of the Eclipse icons in the dock continues 
bouncing for the better part of a minute or more.  The continued bouncing leads some users to think 
that it is still launching and not ready for quite a long time compared to other aplications.  It 
should launch quicker, or, at the very least, the icons should stop bouncing once it is ready for use.

Configuration: OS X 10.3.2, Java 1.4.2 final, Eclipse 3.0M7 (first observed on M6; no significant change 
in M7); observed on both a 1GHz PowerBook G4 and a dual 2GHz G5.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2004-02-19 12:08:38 EST 
Anyone know what causes a "bouncing icon" on Mac?
Comment 2 Andre Weinand CLA 2004-02-19 12:36:11 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42554 ***
Comment 3 Hal Perkins CLA 2004-02-19 15:10:58 EST 
If you want to mark this as a duplicate of 42554 that's fine, but I don't buy 
it as resolved (which both bugs are marked).  The problem is not that there 
are multiple eclipse icons in the dock, that's ok, and it's probably 
unavoidable when Java opens several windows on OS X.  The problem is that one 
of them keeps bouncing for a long time, waiting for an OS timeout, which leads 
users to think that Eclipse hasn't finished launching.  That needs to be fixed.
Comment 4 Andre Weinand CLA 2004-02-19 18:00:12 EST 
I don't buy that you have tried the version of Eclipse where the problem has been fixed (I20040217).
The problem hasn't been fixed for M7.
Comment 5 Hal Perkins CLA 2004-02-19 23:51:05 EST 
My apologies.  I missed the reference to the post-M7 build where this seems to be fixed.
Comment 6 John Arthorne CLA 2004-03-03 16:53:20 EST 
Incorrect resolution (it's a dup)
Comment 7 John Arthorne CLA 2004-03-03 16:53:30 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42554 ***