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

[Ziller Eike]

On 08.07.2013, at 11:45, Ziller Eike <Eike.Ziller at digia.com> wrote:

> 
> On 08.07.2013, at 11:16, Peter Pearson <peter at thefoundry.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Most progress indicators vanish a few seconds after they *successfully* finished, some (like build progress) vanish a few seconds after user interaction on Qt Creator (e.g. mouse move). Failed builds do not vanish automatically.
> After that you'll not see any progress indicators even if "toggle progress details" is on. But if it that is on, whenever another progress starts, the details should be immediately visible again.
> 
> Please note that this behavior hasn't changed from before :)
> 
>> 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?
> 
> It didn't change.
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Hm, I'll try to find out what happens there.  Looks like sometimes the cancel button doesn't appear for some reason.

stupid ;) , https://codereview.qt-project.org/60659

> Br, Eike
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Peter Pearson
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