On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 03:05:09PM -0400, Calvin Morrison wrote: > On 29 March 2013 14:54, Raphaël Proust <raphla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> On 29 March 2013 14:31, Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote: > >>> […] > >> > >> 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. > > > > > > I also like the idea of not having a pure-text interaction with the > > computer, but Terminology is definitely pushing things too far. It's > > hard to have a good middle ground. > > > > Alternatively, you could set up plumber and have your terminal be as > > smart as acme: left-click on a .jpg/png/gif/whatever opens an image > > viewer. It separates the two concept (ls and preview) and is dead > > simple. Bonus points: because the two concepts are separate, you can > > have the plumbing rules independent of your terminal so you can set up > > different dispatching easily. > > I'm actually really liking my idea I suggested earlier, having some > time to think about it. > > It's an awesome idea in fact. > [...] > Images are very useful for humans, but GUI's are not, I want an > amalgam of images and text > on my terminal
Sorry to revive this older discussion but I finally found that one graphical shell implemented in Webkit that your idea reminded me of. I thought you might be interested in reading about it (if you haven't already). http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/ Having one program decode all these formats does not seem very Unixy though. Cheers, Silvan
