#357 SshConsole task causes annoying spinner in status bar widget

[Ben Golding]

To reproduce:
1) Open a file using SFTP
2) Menu => Plugins => SshConsole => Show SshConsole
3) Press Enter in the SSH console window to connect

A task appears always running (in Task Monitor dockable and in Tasks status bar widget) when the SSH console is active. Consider hiding the task... at the minimum, don't have the animated spinner in the status bar widget if this SSH task is the only active task, because it's very annoying/distracting! :)

I guess this also needs some change in the core for a "hidden" boolean flag on tasks, or similar. Maybe other plugins would also have a similar issue.

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jEdit 5.3.0 (stable)
Enabled plugins: FTP 1.3, Common Controls 1.7.4, Console 5.1.4, ErrorList 2.3, SshConsole 1.0.7
Windows 7 x86_64
Oracle JRE 1.8.0_66 (x86_64) + JCE unlimited strength policies

[Alan Ezust]

I kinda liked it, to show me that it is an active network connection.
I suppose i could make "hiding sshconsole shells from task monitor" an option.

[Ben Golding]

Makes sense. I'm fine to just do
"don't animate the spinner when the only active task(s) are persistent tasks"

(by persistent I mean any task running for a very long time, probably the lifetime of jEdit itself in this case)

[Alan Ezust]

Committed revision 24405.
Pre-release available on DropBox.

[Alan Ezust]

Oops. Ignore the previous Dropbox Link, Sorry.
I meant to say pre-release is here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31527080/SshConsole.jar

[Ben Golding]

I updated and now see 1.0.8 for SshConsole in Plugin Manager, but the spinner is still there... (jEdit 5.3.0)

[Alan Ezust]

go to plugin options - sshconsole and un-check "show ssh processes in task manager"

[Ben Golding]

Thanks, it works now...