microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Auto-show progress in task bar based on contents of last line of buffer
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Product-Terminal
- Dominant language
- C++
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Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
Display percentage loading indicator in windows taskbar.
- Read the last output line in the console.
- If there's a string, such as "12%" or "12/100" then, display the percentage in task bar.
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the Windows taskbar progress integration and the console buffer handling, then determine how the last output line could be inspected for values such as "12%" or "12/100". Done means displaying the detected percentage in the taskbar without changing unrelated console output behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100