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Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Re: Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Post by Fnoord »

shockone wrote: post #47
eivarv wrote: post #38

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[...] Electron is the only decent cross-platform UI framework That's just not true. What about Qt, wxWidgets, Tcl/Tk, or even Kivy?

In my opinion, Qt and wxWidgets apps look ugly. At least I never saw one that looks beautiful.

See e.g. for a list of applications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Qt_market

Of course it depends on where your interests lie but here's some examples: VLC, Spotify (Linux), old Opera, Krita, Google Earth, Tesla Model S in-car UI, webOS, SailfishOS, AMD's Radeon Software Crimson driver tool, and many others including what's already mentioned, Battle.net.

Re: Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Post by jameskegel »

rodorgas wrote: post #70
jcelerier wrote: post #59

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Telegram ? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/d... Battle.Net ? https://i.imgur.com/VCNEhgm.jpg both are made with Qt

I didn't know Telegram uses Qt. No desktop messaging client has better UI/X.

Really? I joined a few groups but couldn't figure out how to post, and there was an emoji drawer eating up 1/3 of the screen, and was unable to be hidden. I consider myself a smart enough person to write an app that performs the role of Telegram, I shouldn't have trouble learning to use it.

Re: Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Post by sime2009 »

hexrcs wrote: post #41
Philipp__ wrote: post #8

Electron... no thanks! I will wait for Alacritty, in the meantime iTerm2 and Terminal.app are there...

A bit off-topic but I wonder if it is possible that Electron team distribute something like the VS C++ Runtimes on Windows? And release patches for different versions/updates? Haven't used a Windows machine for a while but I remember there were bunches of different VS Runtime version installed on my PC before. Some app installers came with a runtime installer, but if the required runtime version was installed it woul…

There has been discussion of this idea. https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673

Re: Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Post by jameskegel »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #82
KyeRussell wrote: post #80

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I don't know how you could expect the project's developer(s) to read your comment and gain anything positive from it. It's a thinly veiled rant / grab at votes. There are a lot of ways you could be more constructive, and you decided to not go with any of them. :)

I don't. They're 2000+ commits deep into this mess, it's not like they're going to change course now. I'm hoping to discourage everyone else from building similar projects.

Easy there, this is someone's personal project- you aren't being forced to use, evaluate, contribute to, or provide a review. You should focus on your own goals and excuse yourself from topics of discussion you don't care for. Someone on the project is likely reading this and -not- feeling good about your needlessly hateful comments. Next time just keep it to yourself and move on.

Re: Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Post by jd3 »

rambl3r wrote: post #85

Hacker News macro: Author: I wrote something for people who care more about features than performance. People who care more about performance than features: I am personally offended that you created this.

typing latency (evident in all electron programs) is a deal breaker tbh - this becomes especially true for something like a term emulator

Re: Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Post by unrealhoang »

sevensor wrote: post #78
unrealhoang wrote: post #74

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Why are you waiting? I’m already using Alacritty.

Not the person you're responding to, but when I tried it early this year Alacritty used more CPU and memory than gnome-terminal, and felt less responsive. It was also somewhat glitchy with my usual tmux+text editor configuration. VTE has been around since at least 2002, and in that time it's received a great deal of attention. While I'm always interested in new terminal emulators, catching up to VTE is going to take…

There was an issue earlier this year caused immense slow down on Linux that is already fixed. You may try it again now.

Re: Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

jameskegel wrote: post #94
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't. They're 2000+ commits deep into this mess, it's not like they're going to change course now. I'm hoping to discourage everyone else from building similar projects.

Easy there, this is someone's personal project- you aren't being forced to use, evaluate, contribute to, or provide a review. You should focus on your own goals and excuse yourself from topics of discussion you don't care for. Someone on the project is likely reading this and -not- feeling good about your needlessly hateful comments. Next time just keep it to yourself and move on.

No, if I don't speak up, these bad engineering practices proliferate and the ecosystem gets worse. Sorry, but people are going to be called out on their mistakes and that's fine.

Re: Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Post by sime2009 »

hacking_again wrote: post #46
JosephRedfern wrote: post #37

I've not been able to find an adequate terminal emulator for Windows. I found Conemu clunky (maybe I needed to spend more time configuring it, but out of the box it was fairly ugly, and borked out under some curses applications and when using tmux), PuTTY/KiTTY to be lacking some important features (like tabs) -- ditto cmd.exe. IMO there's a real gap in the Windows market, be that a new terminal emulator entirely, or…

I use mintty with Cygwin. If you want tabs maybe you can try the fork called fatty.

If you are looking for a terminal to use with cygwin then you should check out http://extraterm.org . It is in development but is stable enough for me to use full time on Linux and cygwin. Plus it has a bunch of other useful features.
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