From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jose A Ortega Ruiz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Implementing image support for kitty terminal Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 06:56:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87y1utw0oo.fsf@mail.jao.io> References: <87v8pz18wf.fsf@mail.jao.io> <83o7vrgimc.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnafdnee.fsf@logand.com> <835yhzgdyi.fsf@gnu.org> <87k06den1s.fsf@logand.com> <87illxy5ir.fsf@mail.jao.io> <875yhx8gv8.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22947"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Tomas Hlavaty , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 09 08:08:06 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oWXBN-0005pm-PX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2022 08:08:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53042 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWXBM-0006Pf-7d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2022 02:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52584) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWX06-0001xH-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2022 01:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWX06-0000Kq-3D; Fri, 09 Sep 2022 01:56:26 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:To: From; bh=5Rdl9LBfeQUrd443gKjOLZh3+m2F9ni1AxlzV4uiunA=; b=aXaR7KkEsbEo+GDmkO4J pBXgN+6mcYdCQbO/QUx5l4Sq4OCxUtsK+KOteADsNTI7hmutdPB0wGSPkA1dKON6ehHpMa+UV8vsd YOJ0hUWw05iFOAI2BnVJRCurfrcaeCTJoQxUFdoUJW5sSEL/xDH9zG7M7l5bhWxp52rZzfQnKPy+O Y/Hb+Ho+BlfwRQuYK7M2KJFvg4BUmNvnyzRI3EeJ8h6hCwfEvRFQo1NECmri2jTgiK2NwiBH6l+N0 07ODd0VXDSnYbmQMMvPbJ20Prkn3pNTkUXrhnCn9JjdHN59tVFRX1B8BSsheRnoyoNitknAVyHbph uz/WW7E/Bjw/BA==; Original-Received: from cpc103048-sgyl39-2-0-cust502.18-2.cable.virginm.net ([92.233.85.247]:50504 helo=rivendell.localdomain) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWX05-0008LG-JO; Fri, 09 Sep 2022 01:56:25 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (rivendell.localdomain [local]) by rivendell.localdomain (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id d91f28a3; Fri, 9 Sep 2022 05:56:23 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <875yhx8gv8.fsf@yahoo.com> X-Attribution: jao X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-URL: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:295036 Archived-At: On Fri, Sep 09 2022, Po Lu wrote: > Jose A Ortega Ruiz writes: > >> fwiw, as the OP, no, that's not the original use-case i had in mind, >> only part of it. i want also to be able to display images in documents >> rendered by eww, or by chat clients such as telega or circe that have >> excellent support for it. i'd also like to use image dired in these >> kind of terminals. in fact, i almost never use a pure tty or the >> console. what this would allow me is to have the same functionality >> working at once in X11 and Wayland without suffering the complexities of >> more heavy-weight graphical libraries and toolkits. > > I'm going to bet that any terminal emulator that displays images will be > more heavyweight than Emacs on X --with-x-toolkit=3Dno. well, and i'm going to be that, in wayland, the terminal emulator with images is going to consume less than half the memory of the pgtk build... but if we never try, we'll never know. jao --=20 It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one=E2=80=99s back that are absolutely and entire= ly true. =E2=80=94Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray