Cell running should use progress notifications in status bar

[isidorn]

Have a notebook with a lot of cells.
Scroll down to cell N#8 for example. Click on the Run all above cells button.
Now you are not aware of the progress of the above cells, you have to scroll up.

I suggest to use a progress notification in the status bar, that would say which cell is currently in progress. That way the user would be aware of what is going on without having to scroll down.

fyi @jrieken

[roblourens]

You can have multiple cells in progress, do we list all of them?

[isidorn]

I suggest if there is just one mention the name. If there are multiple say "n cells in progress..." to not take too much status bar space.

[roblourens]

I can keep this open but I don't think that notebook users are often concerned with tracking cell-by-cell execution progress.

[rebornix]

My painpoint is always hard to find which cell is executing.

[miguelsolorio]

There's #107919 that tracks the running of the active cell when executing Run All Cells

[isidorn]

Well I am a notebook user, and I actually am puzzled when I run all above cells what is the progress, and is anything running at all? IMHO this is the only thing which the webview notebooks do better.

#107919 defeats the purpose of what I want as a user: that my screen view port does not change and that I am aware how is the execution above progressing

Without this feature clicking on run all above cells does not give any feedback to the user that anything is running at all

[miguelsolorio]

IMO, I think adding an item in the status bar will work fine, similar to the running tasks.

[roblourens]

What does the webview notebook do for this?

[isidorn]

They show a sinner in the status bar with Executing Cell text

[roblourens]

@digitarald also brought up the point of not being able to tell whether a collapsed cell is executing. Not sure I want to keep the cell status bar visible when a cell is collapsed, but we could have an item in the editor status bar (or notebook toolbar?) like @isidorn suggests, and if I click it, the top currently executing cell is focused/revealed.

[miguelsolorio]

Just ran into this issue where I have a notebook with 142 cells and when I hit "running all" I wasn't sure where the current cell was without scrolling:

Would love it if we showed a status bar item with the spinner icon after a certain amount of time (10s?)

[roblourens]

#130611