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Bug 59026

Summary:	[Workbench] Show feedback on startup
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	jeffmcaffer
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Gunnar Wagenknecht

2004-04-19 00:51:21 EDT

Eclipse should show some feedback during startup until the workbench is 
visible and usable. This could be done by having the Splash screen shwoing a 
progress bar (like Windows XP boot screen) or blinking icons for several 
startup states (like Gnome/KDE splash screen).

Comment 1 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2004-04-19 00:54:41 EDT

Optionally it would be nice to display some messages inside an area on the 
splash screen to inform the user what is going on (eg.: "Reading opened 
projects", "Restoring workbench", "Recovering unclean shutdown")

Comment 2 Tod Creasey

2004-04-19 12:18:43 EDT

cc'ing Jeff as Core handles most of the startup

Comment 3 Jeff McAffer

2004-04-19 14:19:17 EDT

Splash handling (other than initiation and tear down) is all done in 
eclipse.exe which lives in SWT land.  There has been some discussion about 
animating the splash but it is really quite complicated.  We want the splash up 
asap so doing it in the exe is the best place.  It is actually quite some time 
until we know the location of SWT (the first time we could do some graphics) 
and there are issues managing the Display instance apparently.

A safe bet for this would be to defer to LATER.  Worthwhile but not now.

Comment 4 Tod Creasey

2006-04-13 21:16:17 EDT

We have done this since 3.1

Comment 5 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2006-04-13 21:58:55 EDT

reopening to classify as dup of bug 7022

Comment 6 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2006-04-13 21:59:39 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7022 ***