An even better progress bar

[denelon]

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:

[denelon]

@JohnMcPMS thinks it's Smooooooooth...

[sba923]

What I currently get seems to use the "partial box" glyphs in the wrong order:

[denelon]

@chausner would you mind taking a look?

[chausner]

@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]

Of course, this had to be a font problem.

With Cascadia Code the behavior is correct.

With CaskaydiaCove NF (my default font needed by oh-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]

Of course, this had to be a font problem.

With Cascadia Code the behavior is correct.

With CaskaydiaCove NF (my default font needed by oh-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]

QED

With Cascadia Code:

With CaskaydiaCove NF:

[sba923]

The plot thickens: the required glyphs don't seem to exist in CaskaydiaCove NF:

[denelon]

Hopefully they are willing to add them. It would be really cool if you could winget upgrade CaskaydiaCove:

• Support for installation of fonts #166

[sba923]

Opened ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#883

[sba923]

What I currently get seems to use the "partial box" glyphs in the wrong order:

Isn't this a good enough reason to make the new smooth progress bar a configurable opt-in setting?

[sba923]

Hopefully they are willing to add them.

It's coming: ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#883 (comment)

Tested OK with their latest build:

[denelon]

@sba923 thanks for finding the root cause and raising the issue at nerd-fonts!

[sba923]

@sba923 thanks for finding the root cause and raising the issue at nerd-fonts!

You're very welcome!

[sba923]

It would be really cool if you could winget upgrade CaskaydiaCove:

• Support for installation of fonts #166

In the meantime, I'd like to know how to determine the versions of Cascadia Code and CaskadiaCove NF installed on my systems (from PowerShell, of course. What else? 😜)

[denelon]

In the meantime, I'd like to know how to determine the versions of Cascadia Code and CaskadiaCove NF installed on my systems (from PowerShell, of course. What else? 😜)

I'll ask around.

[KK-Designs]

@JohnMcPMS thinks it's Smooooooooth...

Does the wingetdev include an option for testing the upgrade command? If so, where can I download that?

[SCIEN-00]

I would like something like this:

more information and cleaner imo 🤔