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There is no visual indication in the status line that multiple processes are running. Suppose you open a project which starts up the classpath scanning. During that you run a CVS checkout. It seems like the classpath scanning has suddenly finished because the CVS checkout process appears in the status line. Also it is quite hidden that the progress bar is click-able. Progress bars are not clickable in any other occurence in IDE nor elsewhere, so I think users would not know they should hover mouse over the progress bar (which then changes the mouse pointer what should explain that the progress bar is clickable).
how should the visual indication look like? we can have an icon appended to the visuals in the status bar.
could be related to #62658. we want to have the close button next to progress bar (or empty space if not cancellable). not sure adding another icon/empty space is desirable.
Despite common practice, making this older issue a duplicate for a newer one, which emerged during a usability study. This is because the new one is a p2 defect while this one is an old enhancement and also to keep all findings from the usability study under one umbrella issue. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 189897 ***