show error when fetching templates from Github #6440
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This shows "some" error in the UI when there are problems fetching from Github. The error message also includes a hint to https://bnd.bndtools.org/instructions/connection-settings.html because sometimes you have a ~/.m2/settings.xml with some credentials which can lead to "Bad Credentials" http errors from the Github API, but before this fix you had no idea what was going on, because the UI was blank and the existance of ~/.m2/settings.xml is easily forgotten
The message reads (wording improvements welcome):
Eclipse Error Log tab:
This is not ideal but at least something more useful is now shown.