Comment by xp84
3 months ago
I have to say, (caveat, I have not tried any of these yet) that I am intrigued by all these features like graphics being added to terminals. It feel like exploring an alternate timeline 1990s where the GUI “lost” — of course in the absence of a successful Windows and Macintosh, terminals would have naturally gained these graphical abilities 30 years ago.
That alternate timeline started in 1982 with the Blit terminal. [0] It was a GUI made of overlapping terminals that had a serial graphics protocol.
[0] https://www.osnews.com/story/26315/blit-a-multitasking-windo...
The horrible kludge in Kitty of embedding pathnames inside VT-100 codes and making the terminal emulator delete the file when done is really, really far from the alternate timelines we once had.
Plan 9 says you're welcome to explore more. Here's a taste: Starting a "GUI app" in a "terminal" puts the GUI "window" in the pane where the terminal was.