From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Colors and progress indicators on buildprocesses Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 22:41:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87pong9t53.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d5b525ac5a11f0152902458a35120a@riseup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33173) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brP9e-00059x-6T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:49:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brP9Y-0005f0-I4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:49:05 -0400 List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: swedebugia@riseup.net Cc: guix-devel Hi! swedebugia@riseup.net skribis: > Colorfication and arrows (=3D>) are used to clearly distinguish > pacaur/pacman-commands from the buildprocess output. > > A nice thing I saw on some builds (build of qt during build of > telegram-desktop) was a per build process percentage indicator located > in the beginning of each line of build output like this: > [ 0% ] lorem ipsum.... > [ 10% ] lorem ipsum.... > > In addition to these two above I have an idea as well: > Use the terminal-title wisely to show the progress of the whole > transaction and the current running build (e.g.: "Download > complete. Buildprogress 4/5: building qt" > > What do you think? I think these are all good ideas. Especially colors, which could help a lot (for non-Emacs terminals at least), and provide a more pleasant experience. Ludo=E2=80=99.