The normal output is plain text. A status indicator will probably get in the way. Maybe it is best to only show it when using --json or --html (bug #9), formats where the output is only written at the end of the program?
We could update the status from the main thread every X seconds, it could look like this: Processing book 24 of 209 …. What's a reasonable time between updates? I assume it is annoying to update every second. Maybe every 30 seconds?
In [Accessibility of Command Line Interfaces](https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/8bc5640eb3c5cf22b9c5cc72647c6035d8d92fc7.pdf) it is recommended to provide status and progress indication.
The normal output is plain text. A status indicator will probably get in the way. Maybe it is best to only show it when using `--json` or `--html` (bug #9), formats where the output is only written at the end of the program?
We could update the status from the main thread every **X** seconds, it could look like this: `Processing book 24 of 209 …`. What's a reasonable time between updates? I assume it is annoying to update every second. Maybe every 30 seconds?
In Accessibility of Command Line Interfaces it is recommended to provide status and progress indication.
The normal output is plain text. A status indicator will probably get in the way. Maybe it is best to only show it when using
--jsonor--html(bug #9), formats where the output is only written at the end of the program?We could update the status from the main thread every X seconds, it could look like this:
Processing book 24 of 209 …. What's a reasonable time between updates? I assume it is annoying to update every second. Maybe every 30 seconds?