Re:Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0
by jwr on Saturday February 01, 2025 @07:40AM
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Since you insist, I actually downloaded kitty again and tried it. And I confirmed that I disagree with "it's not as good as kitty".
Within minutes I ran into a problem: tried to select a theme using 'kitten themes', could navigate themes but enter did not work, nor was I able to Ctrl-C. I had to kill the app from a different terminal (ahem).
That's what I remember from trying other terminals: they usually try to do too much, and there are plenty of rough edges, which results in me having to spend too much time fussing around. Ghostty gets this right: things work well, the defaults are good, and things that you want to change are easy to change.
Within minutes I ran into a problem: tried to select a theme using 'kitten themes', could navigate themes but enter did not work, nor was I able to Ctrl-C. I had to kill the app from a different terminal (ahem).
That's what I remember from trying other terminals: they usually try to do too much, and there are plenty of rough edges, which results in me having to spend too much time fussing around. Ghostty gets this right: things work well, the defaults are good, and things that you want to change are easy to change.