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Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by crispinb »

wackget wrote: post #59
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #3

Built on Electron? Hard pass. The scourge of the modern age.

It's still trendy to hate on Electron? Give it up. The ship has sailed. I like native apps as much as anyone else but you've got to realise the absolute clusterfuck that is cross-platform development. Plus building rich GUIs is actually feasible when using tools that are actually meant to build rich GUIs (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS).

I'd give up arguing with people about it! I agree web tech is going to stay on the desktop, so I'm happy to let them whinge at the moon while I continue to use sofware on Linux I otherwise would have no access to.

And it's only going to get better. Tauri's promising. I don't know any more than the next punter what the future will be, but my own guess would be web tech getting more significant in desktop UIs, not less. The combinatorial explosion of multiple OSs plus fragmentation of UI toolkits on each desktop platform seems to make web UIs a likely continuing target of choice for many apps. No-one will stop using software they like or need because someone they will never meet dupes a sneer about it on the internet.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by mk926 »

mk926 wrote: post #58

I have used for a while. Good is cross platform I can use it on Windows and Linux. Bad is slow and compatible problem, like when I pasted some token when github pushing, always authenticaed error.

and another problem is when I use tail on Linux, after I scroll up for some screen error, then back to the end it will not show new output more. for compatability it not good as Tilix

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by faitswulff »

eddyg wrote: post #26
kitsunesoba wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe my needs are just too basic, but I've not found much reason to look beyond Apple Terminal, GNOME Terminal, etc. Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown, but I don't find that worth the quirks that come with e.g. iTerm2.

True Color support is a big enough reason to switch from Terminal.app to iTerm2.app. But beyond the cool Quake-style "hot key" overlay terminal that's always at the ready, once you start using other features of iTerm, you'll really appreciate all the amazing features it has! For example: - being able to press Cmd-Shift-E to quickly show/hide timestamp overlays for your entire scrollback - pressing Opt-Cmd-B to open t…

These tips are blowing my mind. Thank you!

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by Aeolun »

bee_rider wrote: post #18
danpalmer wrote: post #10

I'm not sure what the state of terminals is on other platforms, but on macOS iTerm2 is excellent - having every feature under the sun and very good performance. If performance is a bottleneck then Alacritty is even faster, but I've never felt performance limited in iTerm. This makes me skeptical about new non-native terminals. Usually the pitch is faster development so more features, but iTerm2 already being feature…

I like the ligature support in Kitty. Alacritty—I used it for a while but I didn’t really notice a performance advantage. I’m not sure what people are doing where terminal throughput really matters, and when Dan Luu did latency tests (admittedly, this was a while ago), Alacritty was middle of the pack.

Honestly, the only reason I’d switch away from Kitty is because of the extremely annoying SSH behavior.

I respect the authors reasons, but practically it just sucks balls.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by hummus_bae »

yuhc wrote: post #45

I'm looking for features like external terminal, mosh and ipv6 supports which will make a difference from other existing products. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense to migrate from excellent terminals/ssh clients like iterm, putty and mobaxterm.

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Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by carapace »

wackget wrote: post #59
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #3

Built on Electron? Hard pass. The scourge of the modern age.

It's still trendy to hate on Electron? Give it up. The ship has sailed. I like native apps as much as anyone else but you've got to realise the absolute clusterfuck that is cross-platform development. Plus building rich GUIs is actually feasible when using tools that are actually meant to build rich GUIs (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS).

> absolute clusterfuck that is cross-platform development

TCL/Tk

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by csdvrx »

silon42 wrote: post #20
ostenning wrote: post #16

Lets reinvent the wheel but rather than having it round, lets make it square so its slower and less efficient, then we can slap our names on it and cross promote ourselves for higher paying web development jobs

Yeah... xterm with a few tweaks (and some pruning) would still be best for me.

> Yeah... xterm with a few tweaks (and some pruning) would still be best for me.

Check https://github.com/csdvrx/CuteXterm for my bag of tricks :)

xterm offers the best emulation, period. The developer is reactive and maintain high quality standards. The only real issues for me are the lack of configurable shortcuts, and ligatures. wezterm is a good option if you need these, and don't depend on xterm perfect emulation.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by smarkov »

wackget wrote: post #59
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #3

Built on Electron? Hard pass. The scourge of the modern age.

It's still trendy to hate on Electron? Give it up. The ship has sailed. I like native apps as much as anyone else but you've got to realise the absolute clusterfuck that is cross-platform development. Plus building rich GUIs is actually feasible when using tools that are actually meant to build rich GUIs (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS).

> tools that are actually meant to build rich GUIs (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS)

You had me until this part. If those 3 were meant to build rich GUIs we wouldn't have new JS frameworks and a load of bundling tools coming out every year. They were meant to give documents structure and style, that's it. We molded them into the monstrosity they are today.

The appeal is not that they're a pleasure making GUIs with, it's that you go through the nightmare once and it works everywhere, rather than going through 3 different nightmares.

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