The ascii spinner in the progress bar when blanking a rewritable disc is unnecessary and ugly. It doesn't provide any meaningful information that the progress bar and the percentage label do not already offer. Furthermore this seems to be the only progress bar in xfburn with such a spinner. I'll attach a small patch to remove all code related to the spinner from the sources. Feel free to mark the bug as invalid if you don't agree with my reasoning.
Created attachment 1742 Remove ascii spinner from blanking progress bar Sorry about the whitespace changes. I'll provide a clean patch if they are unacceptable.
Sorry, I'm not going to accept this patch. Yes, it's ugly, but it does serve a purpose. If you're doing a complete blank or deformat, the progress can be so slow that one starts to wonder if the program is still doing something at all. That coupled with a very quiet drive (at least mine is when blanking) makes this ascii spinner necessary I think. Because it's ugly, it's only shown when necessary, and that's while blanking. I would very much welcome a patch for a prettier spinner though!