Posted by mmulet 3 days ago
If you have any other ideas for cool Wayland compositors, let me know. I purposedly wrote 80% the app in Typescript to appeal to the most developers and attract cool contributions (I do all drawing with the familiar Canvas2D api, so if there is interest, I can also fork this out into a cool Terminal canvas, let me know!)
I have a blog post here about how I did it, but it’s pretty high level and non technical, so please ask if you have any questions.
[How I Did It](<https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/blob/main/resource...>)
*technically only Wayland apps and x11 apps with Xwayland. But on Linux that’s mostly everything.
https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
P.S. This is very cool btw.
Modern UI applications are way too tightly coupled for my liking, and difficult to test especially if you don't practice "separation of concerns", e.g. decoupling the app logic from its presentation.
Haven't looked at the full thing but something like this might allow you to write tests for UI apps without actually having the UI backend...
Another similar thing that I'd been meaning to look into is the RDP remote apps stuff.
Hopefully supports iPadOS one day.
Absolutely no mouse support though, anyone know of an iPad ssh client with mouse support?
(still working on getting vscode to run smoothly)
Blink terminal for iOS and iPadOS. Ships with vscode support built in too.
Prompt 3 from Panic
Also someone mentioned a cool project like carbonyl. They also mentioned brow.sh which I have heard but they described it in detail so that's another plus when term.everything kind of projects come they drag other cool projects to he foreground
Point 1 of mine may be pure superstition.
How term.everything works on tty I don't know maybe it will be horriblebecause of the resolution thing but still it's a nice direction.
The protocol is sort of:
1. I'd like you to display this PNG. Here's the data: ...
2. Ok I've got the data.
3. Ok now display it at this position.
4. Ok now remove it from the screen.
We're talking motion-PNG here. Just think about how awful that is.
I wish someone would add some kind of AV1-over-terminal protocol. That would be actually useful.
The other thing I was going to try was a custom GUI that used normal terminal text for the text of widgets, but Kitty images for the rest. It's quite a hard problem though.
But I don't want that anyway. I want something graphical that's actually integrated into the terminal.
