[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-17502?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugi... ] Rob Stryker commented on JBIDE-17502: ------------------------------------- After launching the download job, we do the following: {code} IProgressService progressService= PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getProgressService(); Shell sh = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getShell(); progressService.showInDialog(sh, downloadJob); {code} Eclipse just refuses to open the progress dialog until the preference page is open. If I use a "New Shell" entirely, then you can't click "Run in Background" until you close the preference page, despite the preference page being behind the progress monitor dialog, so using a new shell is also not acceptable. If I use the active shell from the download-runtimes wizard, then we run into our initial problem, that the progress monitor dialog is opened and closed immediately such that it feels like it goes to background without even displaying. No idea how to fix this or wtf is going wrong. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2.6#6264)