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Thanks for getting this pull request opened so quickly, @BagToad! ❤️
I see what you mean about the new experience from these efforts, which I agree we likely want something different. 🤔 Honestly, I think we should probably bypass spinner
all together if disabled.
At most, we could duplicate the looping effort to print a message every X duration to stderr based on the logic already being used.
Thoughts?
User Experience feedback
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- Move env var evaluation to the factory defaults. - Use only the label for the spinner instead of adding "working..." every time. "working..." remains the default when no label is provided.
This bypasses the `spinner` package for the textual progress indicator for users with the spinner disabled out of concerns for accessibility, specifically with screen readers: - The `spinner` package will continuously re-draw the screen. I wasn't able to have this cause problems with my Mac screen reader, but it's nonetheless a concern that other screen readers may not handle this screen re-drawing well. - The `spinner` package clears any progress indicator messages from the screen when stopping the progress indicator or changing its label. This is a problem because it interrupts screen readers and leaves no way to recover what the loading message was by scrolling up in the terminal. NOTE: this new implementation still interrupts the screen reader when the a new label is printed, but it does not clear the screen. This makes the loading messages recoverable, at least.
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Pull Request Overview
This PR introduces the GH_SPINNER_DISABLED environment variable to let users disable the spinner animation in favor of a textual progress indicator. Key changes include:
- Adding a spinnerDisabled field with getter and setter methods to IOStreams.
- Modifying StartProgressIndicatorWithLabel to conditionally use a textual progress indicator when spinners are disabled.
- Adding unit tests and updating the factory to correctly interpret various GH_SPINNER_DISABLED environment variable values.
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pkg/iostreams/iostreams_progress_indicator_test.go | Added tests to check spinner behavior and textual output across different modes. |
pkg/iostreams/iostreams.go | Introduced spinnerDisabled flag and added logic for a textual progress indicator. |
pkg/cmd/factory/default_test.go | Added tests to verify the correct parsing of the GH_SPINNER_DISABLED env var. |
pkg/cmd/factory/default.go | Updated ioStreams to determine spinner behavior based on the GH_SPINNER_DISABLED env var. |
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Everything looks really good especially with the PTY test! The only actual change requested is making sure the new env var shows up in gh environment
; everything is just random thoughts that don't really block this PR.
I would like to follow up this issue with a more extensive realignment of progress indicator language to avoid the default |
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Description
Introduce
GH_SPINNER_DISABLED
environment variable to opt-out of displaying a "spinner" animation as a progress indicator. Instead, printWorking...
and any other contextual progress indication (AKA the "label").Examples