On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:04:08 +0000 Nicolas Aguirre <aguirre.nico...@gmail.com> said:
> I NEEEEED ls *.png displaying thumbs ! > Why nobody do that before ? they have actually. there have been efforts like xmlterm (i heard of it years ago then never again - it uses gecko/mozilla for terminal display and infra and a lot of xml stuff) and similar other ones - one on webkit too (termkit). there are even terminal specific extensions for displaying bitmap data inline. https://github.com/breuleux/terminus is doing it. and termkit: http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/ i remember reading about xmlterm years ago and went "oh cool- i want that" but i didn't want to go the whole xml route. also a whole gecko instance for a terminal just offended me. termkit - similar tho leaner, still heavy. but the OUTPUT and functionality is exactly what i wanted. to make this ultimately we need replacements for many common cmd-line tools -> ls, cat, even a custom shell (bash/zsh) or patches to them, that know how to format display for terminology specially - probably via special extended escape sequences. i would START with simple escapes to "pop up" images/media/video/music in the terminal overlayed on the text. other escapes to request them to replace the background. then begin with some special uses - side-bar media. eg play an mp3 and just show the play controls as a bar overlayed on the top of your term while it plays (so not interrupting you like a popup until dismissed by keystroke or mouse). then the next stage is being able to inline the media overlayed on the text grid. this opens up to inlined cat's of images ls's of thumbnails etc. this also then lives inside history unlike the popup/sidebar/overlayed or bg media which are one-off's. being able to, via escapes then pop up NICE visual progress bars (not ===='s like now), that get inlined over the text, and pop up property radio/check selectors for config tools with frames, buttons and entry boxes all inlined. then its time to try something more interesting -> decorating text ala termkit into nice units so u know something is a file, or an option or whatever. so grep output can really highlight things better (more/better than grep --color does now). of course shells need patching here. replacing some of the normal tools is the easier bit. this is a long road to improvement, and things like the movie bg stuff is just infra to build a base to ultimately do that. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
