[TheCondor]

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.

[petepete]

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.

[chaxor]

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.