Re: Implementing image support for kitty terminal

[Jose A Ortega Ruiz]

On Thu, Sep 08 2022, Tomas Hlavaty wrote:

> On Thu 08 Sep 2022 at 21:29, Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 08 2022, Tomas Hlavaty wrote:
>>> The original use-case in this thread was using kitty terminal to view
>>> documents like doc-view or pdf-tools.  There is no need to implement
>>
>> 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.
>
> How is kitty not heavy-weight?
> A graphical emacs already has all that.

After 4-5 days of continous use, a graphical emacs is consuming around
2Gb for me, sometimes 3Gb; emacs-nox+kitty, combined, with the same
workload except displaying images, is under 500Mb.  foot is even
slimmer.

> Also there is no-toolkit emacs.

not in wayland.

jao
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