ZombieProgressBar

Preview

My take on a lovely zombie progress bar for IntelliJ and IntelliJ based IDEs.

Compatibility: IntelliJ IDEA and other JetBrains IDEs 2025.2 and later. For older IDEs, the Marketplace offers version 1.1.2.

Installation

Get it via the Jetbrains Marketplace: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/30702-zombieprogressbar

Build Locally Using Docker + just (no local Java/Gradle)

Requirements:

• docker compose

• just

• Build plugin: just build

• the Plugin .zip is available at build/distributions

• open your Jetbrains IDE: settings -> Plugins -> Cog -> Install from Disk -> select the .zip Folder -> restart IDE

• Try it in a sandbox IDE: just run-ide (needs an X11 or Xwayland display). Only this repository is available inside the container, at /workspace, so open projects from there

• Check compatibility: just verify runs the IntelliJ Plugin Verifier against all supported IDE releases

• Publish: just publish (requires PUBLISH_TOKEN and the signing environment variables)

The build creates two local cache folders in the project root, both safe to delete and ignored by Git:

• .gradle-docker/: the Gradle home used inside Docker, incl. downloaded IDEs, so they are not downloaded again on every build
• .intellijPlatform/: local files of the IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin, incl. the sandbox IDE's config, plugins and logs

Contributions

Contributions are very welcome on this project! Contributions can take the form of bug reports, feature requests, zombie/survivor requests or more!

Acknowledgements

Inspired by:

• Law Millenium's great Naruto Progress Bar
• Nyan Cat Plugin by Dmitry Batkovich.