QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
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QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
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Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
#2No comment on the app, but the website was not scrolling smoothly on my iPhone 15 Pro.
Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
#3Ha! Pretty neat actually for the novelty. Sadly i don't have an iPhone. I've had a Quake terminal on my setup for now 20 years at first because it was oh so cool but now it's so ingrained in my flow i feel lost without one...
Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
#4No comment on the app, but the website was not scrolling smoothly on my iPhone 15 Pro.
it brought my 16-core desktop with 24gb GPU to a crawl, perhaps the only time a website has done that. impressive tbh
Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
#5Expectation: "Quake terminal" implies playing Quake, possibly in some Asciinema-type way. Maybe just starting the built-in Quake terminal without the game-play.
Reality: a regular terminal that starts in the notch and expands to normal window.
I guess it's somehow based on the terminal that was in Quake but that was only really used for issuing quake commands, not really for being a posix-compliant, VT-100 compatible terminal.
[Update: it was quickly pointed out that "Quake terminal" is a term of art for one line terminal that can easily expand. I am a heavy terminal user but genuinely did not know that term was commonplace. Grumpiness retracted.]
Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
#6No comment on the app, but the website was not scrolling smoothly on my iPhone 15 Pro.
Same with Chrome on desktop.
There's an animated background element with shooting stars that seems to be updating per-pixel. The more pixels it draws, like for a high res screen, the slower the page seems to render. I deleted that element and it scrolled smoothly.
Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
#7Expectation: "Quake terminal" implies playing Quake, possibly in some Asciinema-type way. Maybe just starting the built-in Quake terminal without the game-play. Reality: a regular terminal that starts in the notch and expands to normal window. I guess it's somehow based on the terminal that was in Quake but that was only really used for issuing quake commands, not really for being a posix-compliant, VT-100 compatible…
"Quake terminal" has been a term of art for a regular terminal that drops down from the top of the screen like the terminal in Quake did for the last 20-22 years. I remember this being a thing when I started using Linux back then.
https://github.com/Guake/guake
https://babbagefiles.xyz/quake-drop-down-terminal-history/
Yakuake, Kuake (2003), etc.
Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
#8Expectation: "Quake terminal" implies playing Quake, possibly in some Asciinema-type way. Maybe just starting the built-in Quake terminal without the game-play. Reality: a regular terminal that starts in the notch and expands to normal window. I guess it's somehow based on the terminal that was in Quake but that was only really used for issuing quake commands, not really for being a posix-compliant, VT-100 compatible…
I think this kind of functionality has been called "Quake Terminal" for quite some time now...
Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
#9Expectation: "Quake terminal" implies playing Quake, possibly in some Asciinema-type way. Maybe just starting the built-in Quake terminal without the game-play. Reality: a regular terminal that starts in the notch and expands to normal window. I guess it's somehow based on the terminal that was in Quake but that was only really used for issuing quake commands, not really for being a posix-compliant, VT-100 compatible…
It's a "Quake-style terminal", much like Guake or Yakuake, no need to be pedantic.
Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
#10Expectation: "Quake terminal" implies playing Quake, possibly in some Asciinema-type way. Maybe just starting the built-in Quake terminal without the game-play. Reality: a regular terminal that starts in the notch and expands to normal window. I guess it's somehow based on the terminal that was in Quake but that was only really used for issuing quake commands, not really for being a posix-compliant, VT-100 compatible…
"Quake terminal" has been a term of art for a regular terminal that drops down from the top of the screen like the terminal in Quake did for the last 20-22 years. I remember this being a thing when I started using Linux back then. https://github.com/Guake/guake https://babbagefiles.xyz/quake-drop-down-terminal-history/ Yakuake, Kuake (2003), etc.
Oh, interesting. Surprised that I didn't already know that. Perhaps every time I encountered the term "quake terminal" I just assumed it literally meant the the Quake terminal proper.
I'll let my original comment stand since it seems likely that at least some others will have the same impedance mismatch as I did.
In any case, thanks for pointing it out.