Re:Überzug: A CLI utility for drawing images on terminals
by sprash on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:33PM
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Why stop at images? If you go the full way and include drawing commands like those in cairo script (https://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Script-Surfaces.html) you can essentially abolish any other sort of app besides the terminal. Your GUI is then simply created by writing to stdout.
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Re:Überzug: A CLI utility for drawing images on terminals
by enriquto on Saturday December 26, 2020 @07:15PM
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> ... simply created by writing to stdout.
Shut up and take my money!
No, really, that would be awesomely cool. Having support for in-band inline images is a useful start yet. I'm not the hero the world needs, but if I had a lot of money I would surely pay proficient hackers to write that thing.
Re:Überzug: A CLI utility for drawing images on terminals
by remexre on Sunday December 27, 2020 @02:33AM
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I think once you add the user input side, you've reinvented something not unlike X-as-it-originally was, though.
Re:Überzug: A CLI utility for drawing images on terminals
by enriquto on Sunday December 27, 2020 @05:55AM
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> you've reinvented something not unlike X-as-it-originally was
Sounds good to me. Technology advances by the continued reinvention of the wheel, that offers new opportunities for simplification and improvement at each iteration.