Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
by zadjii on Monday November 03, 2025 @03:16PM
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FWIW The definitive thread on "images in terminals" is probably found in these threads:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/...
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/...
there's lengthy discussion from just about everyone at this point in those threads, about why images in terminals is Hard
Kovid documented his rationale at some length here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/33