| 12 Nov 2025 |
 maralorn | Besides that. People let’s brainstorm: What is the fanciest progress bar you have ever seen in a terminal application? I wanna steal it! | 18:06:02 |
 Albert Larsan | I really like the one from cargo, as it is useful without being distracting | 18:13:42 |
| 15 Nov 2025 |
 K900 | 
Download image.png | 09:48:30 |
| K900 | I feel like having progress bars for builds might be too much lol | 09:48:39 |
| maralorn | You mean because it is too much guessing. 😄 | 09:51:45 |
| K900 | Yeah mostly | 10:01:26 |
| K900 | (this particular case was a nixos test running concurrently with like 50 other things) | 10:01:38 |
| maralorn | idk | 10:02:01 |
| maralorn | I find it kinda cute.^^ | 10:02:14 |
| maralorn | But I can remove it again. | 10:02:24 |
| K900 | Also probably need to adjust progressbar width so the numbers fit if they get really long | 10:03:22 |
 Grimmauld (any/all) | yeah the remaining time estimate is a bit wonky on overloaded systems. It might make sense to look at the load average of past builds, and adjust time eta according to current load average. But that probably also gets wildly inaccurate. | 10:09:57 |
 Emma [it/its] | progress bars for builds 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 | 10:10:44 |
| Emma [it/its] | * progress bars for builds 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 | 10:11:00 |
| 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 … 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. 🥴 | 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 |
