Can eclipse notify me when a task has finished running?

Question

I am often stuck twiddling my thumbs for a couple minutes while eclipse cleans, builds, or loads my projects. It would be nice if eclipse could notify me with a beep when the l

Answer 1

There are no preference for this - yet.

The JobManager have the needed API to support this functionality...

EDIT: I have constructed and attached a very simple plug-in that will beep for every job that terminates. That turns out to be rather often :-) . You can modify it to filter out all the false positives, e.g. by getPriority() and getName(). Also you can make the listener play a tune, popup a message (don't!) or whatever...

See jobnotifier.zip.

UPDATED the link above again