Sometimes it's not really obvious what is going on behind the scene. Nothing is happening
on screen and user may think that IDE does nothing. But in that time on the background,
we are doing really important things. Like maven pom processing, indexing, etc.
The proposal is to have something similar to the status bar. We can put such information:

I'm not sure how memory and CPU consumption are useful, but +1 on processing indicator.
In my case, after importing Che project I couldn't use code assist. I started to investigate why it hadn't been working and after 10 minutes it just started working. The reason was that maven importing and processing wasn't finished yet but I had no idea about that, so thought code assist was not working.
I'm not sure how memory and CPU consumption are useful
It's useful for a couple of reasons.
We also have a need for this in https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/6157 (See maven plugin section)
+1 it is extremely useful feature
VSCode example

Not needed anymore.
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We also have a need for this in https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/6157 (See maven plugin section)