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TTE: Terminal Text Effects

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Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects

#32

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Idk I wouldn’t mind one or two of these as loading screens or something.

As a developer-only tool, I’m sure most of my coworkers would love the attention to details.

I actually love it.

Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects

#33

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Why not?

Imagine that the CLI tool you use most often every day - a compiler, a package manager, like that - adds animations like these in common operations. Now you have to wait for the animation to finish before you can continue your work. How do you feel about that?

Also, I don't want to even imagine how it would look on a SSH connection.

Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects

#35

This is amazing! Please never ever use it in production.

I was thinking about how fun it would be to add this my Python CLI [0] I made for launching Fedora CoreOS locally with QEMU for testing ignition, but with a flag that is turned off by default. Using the burn effect in TTE when launching a VM with my CLI would be so cool.

This instantly reminded me about Ansible and how it annoyed me that ANSIBLE_NOCOWS had to be enabled to disable the default output of Ansible with cowsay [1].

[0]: https://github.com/quickvm/bupy

[1]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10530

Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects

#36

This is amazing! Please never ever use it in production.

Idk I wouldn’t mind one or two of these as loading screens or something.

What CLI tools have a slow enough boot to require a loading screen? I'm sure there are some but...

The only one that comes to mine for me is FileBot[0] - and if the loading screen made it take ANY additional time, I'd be annoyed.

[0] https://www.filebot.net/

Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects

#37

This is amazing! Please never ever use it in production.

Why not?

Prod should be as robust and straightforward as possible; no distractions, no noise, no extra overhead. This is neat, but not useful, and it adds distractions and delays.
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