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DevDiagnostics: should have a status bar
Suggested new feature or improvement
Increasingly, we're executing operations where the user could benefit from some feedback. Eg
- Invoke some external tool. Perhaps it showed UI, perhaps it didn't. Perhaps it's not a UI tool. Perhaps our tool configuration of the path is stale? Perhaps it crashed? Or our command-line config is wrong? Either way, we should tell the user what's going on.
- Exceptions within PI itself. Right now, we're logging them. Consider exposing this log output.
- ...and make it a user setting: expose log output in the UI, and/or make log output file available.
...etc
Scenario
Consider options:
- Simple one-line ephemeral status.
- Status control with history.
- both the above (togglable, and toggle persisted via user setting).
Additional details
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