microsoft/Terminal

Use an indeterminate progress ring on the tab before a tab is "connected"

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#3,991 opened on Dec 17, 2019

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Description

Browsers will often use a little spinning animation to indicate that a tab is loading before displaying the favicon. For shells like wsl and the Azure connector, we could maybe do something similar, where we keep it on the spinner until we get the first byte.

This would probably require support from WinUI for progress wheels in tabs first

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Investigate how to add an indeterminate progress ring to a tab control. This likely requires modifications to WinUI's TabView or implementing a custom rendering with a spinner animation. Start by understanding the existing tab control code in the Terminal repository and how WinUI handles tab items.
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cpp
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frontenddesktop
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3
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1-2 days
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C++WinUI
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30