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looks very cool, but running easy_install fabulous on Mac 10.5 installed a broken version. the demo threw some errors and the whole thing blinked and didn't show all the colors. blinking terminal.... might work if i build it myself and sort out the ld dependencies. anyway, still a cool project. not sure i'll ever have use for it...maybe for debug apps.
looks very cool, but running easy_install fabulous on Mac 10.5 installed a broken version. the demo threw some errors and the whole thing blinked and didn't show all the colors. blinking terminal.... might work if i build it myself and sort out the ld dependencies. anyway, still a cool project. not sure i'll ever have use for it...maybe for debug apps.
Also Mac's Terminal app is only 16 color.
looks very cool, but running easy_install fabulous on Mac 10.5 installed a broken version. the demo threw some errors and the whole thing blinked and didn't show all the colors. blinking terminal.... might work if i build it myself and sort out the ld dependencies. anyway, still a cool project. not sure i'll ever have use for it...maybe for debug apps.
After hacking out the PIL check in /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/fabulous-0.1.5-py2.6.egg/fabulous/{test,image}.py and fixing the imports to import Image, the demo runs okay.
Which is to say Terminal.app fails to render; when using xterm and X11 locally, or ssh-ing from Linux into OS X, 'fabulous' looks fine.
This is cool, but I get the feeling it is just a workaround for the broken state of current terminals. Why are they still character based? We have had bitmap displays as long as I have had a computer, but we still emulate text terminals. There are graphical terminals in programs like Maple and Matlab, and some years ago there was talk of an XML-based terminal, but nothing happens. Sorry for the rant. I just couldn't…
talk about a Heaven meets Hell scenario
Lobstertech: I couldn't help but be reminded of the fancy things we did with ANSI graphics in the BBS days. Merging the gif/jpg to ansi converter was very clever. This could make for some interesting terminal programs.
http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
One of my favorite application of the libcaca is neercs:
sudo pip install fabulous