VTE-Based Linux Terminals Now Support A Nice Feature Led By Windows Terminal

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VTE-Based Linux Terminals Now Support A Nice Feature Led By Windows Terminal

VTE-based terminals on Linux like Ptyxis are now seeing support introduced to better display progress state for long-running processes with a more visually pleasing progress bar. Microsoft's Windows Terminal has already supported this feature while now with systemd beginning to support using these Operating System Command escape sequences, Linux terminal support is on the rise...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/VTE-Terminals-Progress-Indicate

[ahrs]

Does this mean I can visually see the lack of progress of a stop job now? +1

[Topolino]

FYI Gitlab links might not work right now. There's a major outage due to the AWS migration.

[varikonniemi]

Great, "eyecandy" even for the terminal, with more code complexity and worst of all, less readability.

[rrveex]

This sounds like the emoji story. "Hey, we have enough codepoints, let's fill them with shit" -> "Hey, we have terminal escape sequences, let's fill them with MicroShit."

Next we'll have full widget support, not only the progressbar widget. Like, instead of, "are you sure? (y/n)" we'll get 2 button-widgets, placed "somewhere", in "some color". Or a pretty dialogbox "You seem to enjoy pretty widgets, do you want systemd to install windows for you? [yes]"

[Quackdoc]

We already have so many terminals that support so many different and good looking progress bars, the only thing I can really say about this is that I guess it's nice to support the couple "windows optimized only" programs that use this

[Shnatsel]

Now if someone would add the process completion notifications I added to elementary's terminal a decade ago to other terminals! It's an amazing feature that's hard to give up once you've seen it in action, but for some reason it hasn't really spread beyond elementary OS.

[ahrs]

Now if someone would add the process completion notifications I added to elementary's terminal a decade ago to other terminals! It's an amazing feature that's hard to give up once you've seen it in action, but for some reason it hasn't really spread beyond elementary OS.

Konsole has this too. You can easily wrap any command in notify-send though to send a notification after running any long-running command, of course sometimes you might forget to do that and wish you'd done so after the fact.

[gotar]

There's a major outage due to the AWS migration.

They could have moved to cloud of ash. Oh well, maybe next time.

[Shnatsel]

elementary's terminal is much more intelligent than just wrapping things in notify-send. It doesn't bother you with notifications if you're looking at the tab where the process has completed. It shows an icon on the tab but not a desktop notification if you're looking at a different tab in terminal. And only shows a full-on desktop notification if the terminal window isn't focused at all.