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An even better progress bar #2055
Description
Description of the new feature / enhancement
chausner noticed the progress bar could be improved.
Proposed technical implementation details
This enhances the progress bar to use more fine-grained blocks, in steps of 1/8 of the width of a block, by leveraging the Block Element Unicode characters.
E.g. before:
After:
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denelon commentedon Mar 30, 2022
JohnMcPMS thinks it's Smooooooooth...
sba923 commentedon Aug 18, 2022
What I currently get seems to use the "partial box" glyphs in the wrong order:
denelon commentedon Aug 18, 2022
chausner would you mind taking a look?
chausner commentedon Aug 18, 2022
Stéphane BARIZIEN (@sba923) What font are you using in the terminal? If it's a custom font, can you please try switching to a default font temporarily and check whether the problem persists?
sba923 commentedon Aug 18, 2022
Of course, this had to be a font problem.
With
Cascadia Codethe behavior is correct.With
CaskaydiaCove NF(my default font needed byoh-my-posh), the behavior is not correct.I'll check the glyphs used by the new progress bar in the two fonts, and will most likely report an issue for
CaskaydiaCove NF.sba923 commentedon Aug 18, 2022
Of course, this had to be a font problem.
With
Cascadia Codethe behavior is correct.With
CaskaydiaCove NF(my default font needed byoh-my-posh), the behavior is not correct.I'll check the glyphs used by the new progress bar in the two fonts, and most likely will report an issue for
CaskaydiaCove NF.sba923 commentedon Aug 18, 2022
QED
With
Cascadia Code:With
CaskaydiaCove NF:sba923 commentedon Aug 18, 2022
The plot thickens: the required glyphs don't seem to exist in
CaskaydiaCove NF:denelon commentedon Aug 18, 2022
Hopefully they are willing to add them. It would be really cool if you could
winget upgrade CaskaydiaCove:sba923 commentedon Aug 18, 2022
Opened ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#883
sba923 commentedon Aug 19, 2022
Isn't this a good enough reason to make the new smooth progress bar a configurable opt-in setting?
sba923 commentedon Aug 19, 2022
It's coming: ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#883 (comment)
Tested OK with their latest build:
denelon commentedon Aug 19, 2022
Stéphane BARIZIEN (@sba923) thanks for finding the root cause and raising the issue at nerd-fonts!
sba923 commentedon Aug 19, 2022
You're very welcome!
sba923 commentedon Aug 20, 2022
In the meantime, I'd like to know how to determine the versions of
Cascadia CodeandCaskadiaCove NFinstalled on my systems (from PowerShell, of course. What else? 😜)denelon commentedon Aug 22, 2022
I'll ask around.
onyx-nxt commentedon Dec 19, 2022
Does the wingetdev include an option for testing the upgrade command? If so, where can I download that?
SCIEN-00 commentedon Aug 6, 2024
I would like something like this:
more information and cleaner imo 🤔