Console header briefly flashes periodically (randomly) since "elapsed" time was added to it

[hjohn]

This happens on the Windows platform whenever the Console view is visible and an application is running, which causes the elapsed time to be updated every second. It seems to have been introduced (or it has become a lot more visible) since #1527 .

The "flash" this causes is quite annoying as it often occurs in your peripheral view when reading code in an editor window.

Video showing the issue, the console header briefly becomes a blank line:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/43107dbe-ae3a-4690-994c-b0595230c733

[SougandhS]

You can temporarily disable the elapsed time feature until a proper fix is implemented.

(available on latest integration builds)

[fedejeanne]

Thank you for reporting it, @hjohn !

Would you like to propose a PR?

[laeubi]

@hjohn it might be related to

• https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/issues/2166

or similar, if the label is not stretched to full length it might change for a short period of time.

If one wants to investigate I think setting a background color to show how large the label is and then possibly change the layout to automatically fill all space what the could hopefully prevent the flashing.