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Bug 318117 - Continuos display of "Refreshing Workspace" is distractive
Summary: Continuos display of "Refreshing Workspace" is distractive
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Resources (show other bugs)
Version: 3.6   Edit
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Resources-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2010-06-27 04:33 EDT by Behrang Saeedzadeh CLA
Modified: 2010-06-28 06:12 EDT (History)
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Description Behrang Saeedzadeh CLA 2010-06-27 04:33:35 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

When auto-refresh is enabled for the workspace, the continuous display of "Refreshing Workspace" at the bottom-right of the window is distractive.

Please watch this screencast for more info: http://screencast.com/t/MjY5MzYwOD

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enabled auto-refresh
2. Wait 30 seconds
Comment 1 Olivier Thomann CLA 2010-06-27 20:05:12 EDT 
Move to Platform/Resources
Comment 2 Szymon Brandys CLA 2010-06-28 06:12:35 EDT 
We are not going to remove this notification.

We should add native refresh providers for Mac and Linux as we already have for Windows. This would allow to see the message, only if a change is made in the underlying filesystem.

See bug 237344.