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by timmattison 1611 days ago
Take a look at TermKit - https://github.com/unconed/TermKit

Long abandoned but I’d love something like this. Someone I know tried to revive it but Node has changed so much that they gave up.

I would donate to an effort to revive it.

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Mozilla included such a terminal in the early seamonkey days. I can’t recall the name. You could “cat foo.jpg” and it would render inline. It was a neat novelty. I think graphics is where it goes too far.

Mainframes and minis modeled many apps as “screens.” Some blend of the streaming style text we have now, with screens, with a new and understood set of protocols that are similar to what we use everywhere else. I think some sort of table in console html would be about my limit, various “modern shells” already support tabular data with, like, their three magic built ins.

Kitty has extensions (kittens) for displaying graphics: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/

Not something I use, I tend to just `xdg-open .` to view them in Nautilus/EOG.

I just started with kitty, and I think it's a very important development specifically because I don't have to use xdg-open. To clarify, the problem is that I typically use remote resources to run analysis - typically on via ssh/tmux. So to view the output png in the terminal and not break from that environment is very useful.