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UX of "Running Indicator" for Launch Configurations should be improved #2933

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The 2026-09 instroduced a "running" indicator for Launch Configurations with #2652. It uses Unicode-icons for that.
The UX of that is not optimal. We now have two "icons" on a menu item. That's a new pattern. I don't see on other places in the IDE. We should strive for consistency instead of lot's of different interaction / UI patterns.
In addition an icon is aways a thing a user first has to learn.

I would propose a very simple solution instead. Let's add just some text suffix to the menu item as a already proposed at eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde#2481 (comment)

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