Productivity Hints popping up during compile

Keith Lea wrote:

I think for compilation, they should be hidden by default, since most people's compilation takes less than a few seconds, in my experience.

Lucky you...

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Nick Pratt wrote:

While I dont mind the productivity hints dialog popping up during JDK class file parsing (that takes a while, and is a rare event), I really dont like the fact that it now pops up during compilation.

Is there a way to disable this dialog from popping up?

JM2C

Nick

This feature has got to be made optional. When I start a compile or some
other relatively long-running task, I'm still thinking about MY problem.
Then this thing comes up and wrenches my attention away. Progress
dialogs are non-intrusive because they're small and containing nothing
attention-grabbing. AND they provide information useful to the task at
hand--namely, how long it's likely to take. These productivity hints are
big, graphical and totally unrelated to what I'm trying to accomplish at
the moment.

And there's another more fundamental problem. If I understand correctly,
a particular hint is shown until it's been used some number of times.
How do I communicate that I know about a feature BUT CHOOSE TO DO MY
WORK A DIFFERENT WAY? Won't I constantly be annoying by helpful
reminders of a feature I know about but have chosen not to use? Isn't
that the definition of a maximally annoying behavior?

+1

I also find the hints distracting when compiling.

"Make" is invoked quite often during normal work,
and mostly the compile time IS very short - it is not full rebuild!

The progressbar is visible for a very short time,
and the hints are distracting ONLY.

the hints should be separated from the progressbar - show them in different non-modal window. Then users get a chance to continue reading when the progressbar finishes ;)

Putting the hints INTO the progressbar is ergonomics violation.

Steps to fix:

1. Open Settings (CtrlAltS)
2. Select Project->Compiler
3. Enable "Compile in background" in the "General" group.
4. Annoying dialog goes away forever.

Not worth getting all riled up about.

- Tim


Nick Pratt wrote:

While I dont mind the productivity hints dialog popping up during JDK class file parsing (that takes a while, and is a rare event), I really dont like the fact that it now pops up during compilation.

Is there a way to disable this dialog from popping up?

JM2C

Nick

It's not just compiling. This is an unwelcome intrusion at all times,
except during start-up. And frankly I don't care much for the attitude
toward users it seems to embody. Every other application I know of that
offers hints allows you to turn it off. Even Microsoft isn't this
relentless.

Tim Haley wrote:

Steps to fix:

1. Open Settings (CtrlAltS)
2. Select Project->Compiler
3. Enable "Compile in background" in the "General" group.
4. Annoying dialog goes away forever.

Not worth getting all riled up about.

- Tim


Nick Pratt wrote:

>> While I dont mind the productivity hints dialog popping up during JDK
>> class file parsing (that takes a while, and is a rare event), I really
>> dont like the fact that it now pops up during compilation.
>>
>> Is there a way to disable this dialog from popping up?
>>
>> JM2C
>>
>> Nick

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:06:18 -0600, Amnon I. Govrin wrote:

An annoyance on a multi screen environment when IJ is not on the primary
screen is that the dialog not only grows but also jumps to the other
(primary) screen.

I agree that any popups should open on the same screen as IDEA.
I would also welcome making those hints optional.

La'ie Techie

Absolutely right !!!

Yep, that's the best solution, I think.

Thanks. But I'd rather they made it an option because it seems to come up everywhere.

Add me to the list of annoyed users. I really don't want to ever see the
hints after startup.

It seems like nothing is going to be done about this problem. :( I have now created a Tracker issue for it. If the productivity hints annoy you, please vote for it at http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=35343