[Qt-creator] New position of build/index progress bar in 2.8

[Peter Pearson]

Hi,

With the change of the position of the progress bar in 2.8 to the bottom 
right, is there any way to keep this consistently visible?

The popup disappears by default after a few seconds.
There's a small up arrow button in the bottom status toolbar that seems 
to allow embedding this progress bar into it, but even that tends to 
disappear as well.

It's really useful knowing the state of the last build, without having 
to pop up the progress bar again or check the build log or kick off 
another useless build (especially when a build system can take +40 secs 
to work out if any files have changed).

Is there any way to configure this, or revert back to the old behaviour 
of the progress bar on the left?

In addition, it seems that you can't cancel a build by clicking on the 
cross to the right of the build toolbar any more in 2.8 RC (Linux and 
Mac) as the cross never appears - but when the same progress bar (but 
different colour) appears for indexing there is a cross to cancel this. Bug?

Thanks,
Peter Pearson