Handle follow up issues for Language Status Bar

[Bernardin-MS]

• "Parsing Open Files | Parsing Workspace: Paused" -> "Parsing Workspace: Paused" once file parsing finished
• Establish distinct indexing state in UI for the new UI #10401
• "Parsing Workspace" when both parsings are happening

[H-G-Hristov]

The language status isn't very visible unless you know where and what to look for.

[sean-mcmanus]

@H-G-Hristov It has a spinning arrow which seems visible to me. Are you saying it's not visible if it's not spinning?

[H-G-Hristov]

@H-G-Hristov It has a spinning arrow which seems visible to me. Are you saying it's not visible if it's not spinning?

@sean-mcmanus My initial comment was related. to the discoverability of the feature. I saw the PR and I wanted to check out the results. So unless users know what they need to look for they may miss it. Maybe something can be improved to make it more obvious.

But now fear it stopped working is that possible:

In the same repository I also have Swift/Objective C/Python/Shell scripts and the SwiftLint and Swift, etc extensions.

[sean-mcmanus]

@H-G-Hristov You need to set C_Cpp.experimentalFeatures to true; otherwise it's "random" whether you get the feature enabled or not.

[sean-mcmanus]

@H-G-Hristov In terms of discoverability, did you have some suggestion? Do other language status bars do something differently than us to make it more discoverable? We're using the VS Code language status bar feature that other languages like TypeScript use.

[H-G-Hristov]

@H-G-Hristov You need to set C_Cpp.experimentalFeatures to true; otherwise it's "random" whether you get the feature enabled or not.

It seems setting "C_Cpp.experimentalFeatures": "enabled", disabling the Swift extension and reloading the workspace made the feature work again.

@H-G-Hristov In terms of discoverability, did you have some suggestion? Do other language status bars do something differently than us to make it more discoverable? We're using the VS Code language status bar feature that other languages like TypeScript use.

In VS code I don't think I have observed any other language status bars. I can think of Android Studio and Visual Studio, even Xcode but I haven't used those in a long time as a use VSCode mostly.

{} is a bit obscure. Maybe the hover can popup automatically (with the option to disable it) when processing starts.

[bobbrow]

{} is a bit obscure. Maybe the hover can popup automatically (with the option to disable it) when processing starts.

The VS Code team makes the {} icon "wiggle" to try to draw attention to it for status updates. You can also pin some of the items to the status bar if you would like to keep them visible. We'll need to iterate on feedback with the VS Code team though. We've asked them for a few features and are looking for additional feedback from our users that we can also take back to them.