| 15 Nov 2025 |
 Emma [it/its] | i miss the one from arch' pacman lol | 10:12:30 |
| Emma [it/its] | it had a certain level of... whimsy :P
(its a pacman animation, ofcourse) | 10:13:38 |
 maralorn | Huh | 10:13:51 |
| Emma [it/its] | 
Download clipboard.png | 10:14:24 |
| Emma [it/its] | not my screenshot but hey (it does require re-rendering ever what was it... 250? 500ms? it alternates between uppercase and lowercase C for the pacman animation lol) | 10:14:54 |
| maralorn | Okay, so how do we translate this? | 10:15:27 |
 Grimmauld (any/all) | melting ice cream? Not very linear thouigh... | 10:15:42 |
| maralorn | I mean "nom" could theoretically be identified with something eating something.^^ | 10:15:52 |
| maralorn | But nix ā¦ We need to animate a growing all-engulfing nothingness?^^ | 10:16:30 |
| maralorn | I think I am quite happy with the progress bar I chose. | 10:17:09 |
| Emma [it/its] | eh, the pacman animation would still be applicable lol | 10:17:09 |
| Emma [it/its] | the fanciest progress bar ive seen was one that somehow did pixel level stuff | 10:17:43 |
| maralorn | But I am happy to sell themes in the in-app store. š„“ | 10:17:47 |
| Emma [it/its] | not sure if it was using sixels or what | 10:17:51 |
| Emma [it/its] | nor which package manager that was | 10:18:09 |
| maralorn | I mean it is actually not that hard to build a solid progressbar with one-eighth of a character steps via unicode box drawing characters. | 13:02:16 |
| maralorn | But my feeling was that having progressbars spanning a the full height of a line would be to massive and hurt the overall aesthetic of nom. | 13:03:15 |
| Emma [it/its] | sounds like pacman might be a good option then :P | 13:07:28 |
| Emma [it/its] | because its only the left and right borders that realy take up a full line | 13:07:43 |
| maralorn | I am not against whimsy. š | 13:11:51 |
| maralorn | Just feels a little bit derivative. | 13:12:05 |
| maralorn | I guess we could make it configurable at some point. š | 13:13:12 |
| Emma [it/its] | fwiw, the pacman default is just #'s without colors :P you enable the pacman animation by adding ILoveCandy to the pacman config | 13:30:22 |
| maralorn | Ah, I see. | 13:33:03 |
| Emma [it/its] | not that it isnt a common configuration for obvious reasons :P | 13:33:40 |
| maralorn | Okay, my plan was anyway to have three levels for nom: ascii-only, only-unicode, full-emoji | 13:34:28 |
| maralorn | And we can add a fourth level whimsy-overload | 13:34:48 |
| 17 Nov 2025 |
 saygo.2 | In reply to @maralorn:maralorn.de
saygo.2: And in regards to "try"-ing Iād be more than happy to help/mentor. Should nom-build stay a pure wrapper? I envision that nom will support more flags once optparse is used. Should we use something like nom build <nom-args> -- <nix args> or stay with the current pure ? | 15:22:04 |
| saygo.2 | * Should nom build stay a pure wrapper? I envision that nom will support more flags once optparse is used. Should we use something like
nom build <nom-args> -- <nix args> or stay with the current pure ? | 15:22:14 |
| saygo.2 | Right now there also is inconsistency in --version. `nom-build --version` lists the nix and nom version, but `nom build --version` does not. | 15:24:31 |
