Re: Implementing image support for kitty terminal

[xenodasein]

>> Are you considering to change the text terminal infrastructure for
>> Emacs just to accommodate one wayward desktop app that claims to be
>> a terminal and a Kindle at the same time?

> Possibly. However, at least one proposal for implementing that leaves
> most of the infrastructure intact.

...

> If someone comes up with a suggestion for how to refactor the display
> code to make its maintenance easier, I think we will welcome that.
> But we cannot reject other enhancements because of the complexity of
> what we have. That complexity didn't prevent us from implementing
> several display-related enhancements in the recent years, and I don't
> see why this particular one should be an exception.

I guess the hard part is to balance the amount of new enhancements
to not build up to a point where it isn't too big of a deterrent to
a possible future, uh, modernization?  If supporting Kitty is easy
within the current framework, why not; this sounds too good though.