Greetings. On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:45:54 +0100 Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 March 2013 14:31, Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote: > > So I came across Enlightenment's "Terminology" terminal emulator > > today, and they have many features we don't. > > > > I recommend skimming the ibPziLRGvkg youtube video. > > > > How long before we can set videos as the background to our > > terminals? I find modern life is definitely not distracting enough, > > and what I really want is to type white text onto a background of a > > moving snowscape. > > > > Christoph, is this something you're working on yet? Or is the plan > > still just the boring "make stuff work well" agenda?
The agenda hasn’t changed yet. Maybe some money will help in changing my ideology. But I’m not religious. > While I find many of those features useless, some of them are plain > cool, and are innovative. Why are we stuck with a text terminal when > we aren't using a tty most of the time? Sure simple text modes should > always be supported but additional features are cool. I'd love to be > able do an easy ls and be able to see my picture previews, why not? > It' s not terribly complicated and it sure is useful. > > It doesn't follow the unix philosophy to have an embedded version of > ls, but it would make sense to be able to print an image to stdout, > using some escape-chars to start the block of data and to close it. > > It's definitely not all good, but that is how innovation is, some good > features will stick and most will fall into nothingness. What you want is not a vt100 emulation. The vt100 emulation is a differ‐ ent environment from what you want. I don’t think raping vt100 to sup‐ port those images is a good idea. If you see the timeline, then HTML is the successor of the terminals and it is going to support 3D games soon [0]. It’s not very efficient, solid and the cause of global warming, but it made this whole OS mess a bit more simpler by having one interface for everything. Of course using the web is like winning a war by burning your own motherland. > I'm still waiting for duke nukem... Duke Nukem Forever has been released a while ago [1]. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann [0] http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/03/27/mozilla-is-unlocking-the-power-of-the-web-as-a-platform-for-gaming/ [1] http://www.dukenukemforever.com/full/de/