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Show progress indicator in terminal #4681

@egmontkob

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Is there an existing request for this?

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Is your feature request related to a problem?

Windows Terminal, GNOME Terminal 3.56, and probably some other terminals now support displayinig a progress indicator on their user interface or on the taskbar.

Examples:

printf '\e]9;4;0\e\\'     # off
printf '\e]9;4;1;33\e\\'  # set to 33% percent (any integer from 0 to 100, obviously)
printf '\e]9;4;2;33\e\\'  # error state at 33% percent
printf '\e]9;4;3\e\\'     # indeterminate state (ongoing progress, percentage unknown)
printf '\e]9;4;4;33\e\\'  # warning or paused (unclear which) state at 33% percent

Further discissons and links from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/2845

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Would be cool if mc's dialogs that present a progress bar could also update this property, to see the progress without the said terminal being in the front.

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    area: ttyInteraction with the terminal, screen librariesprio: mediumHas the potential to affect progress

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