It's minimalistic but it supports animated gifs?
Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
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Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#22Tbh, I never ventured outside of Konsole. Never felt I was missing something or was limited by performance or anything beyond what the stock Konsole offered.
Konsole is decent if you are running kde, but I'd guess majority of people don't
That makes me sad :/
Though now that you mention it, I recall running Tilix back when I used to run gnome. It’s been quite a few years.
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#23Foot has an opt-in server mode so that if you are used to running multiple terminals at once, you can save a little memory. Great for a low-end device. Of course, if the server is closed/crashes, you lose all the client terminals which can be annoying.
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Konsole is decent if you are running kde, but I'd guess majority of people don't
That makes me sad :/ Though now that you mention it, I recall running Tilix back when I used to run gnome. It’s been quite a few years.
it makes you sad that different people do things differently from you?
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#25Last opening for me was Rio terminal, faster then WezTerm.
Rio looks decent. Far fewer features than wezterm though. Although unlike foot, it does have tabs. wez also supports x11.
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#26As someone who has dabbled in terminal emulation (I was the maintainer of Console Telnet for Win32 twenty years ago), I have respect for someone who takes the time to optimize a terminal emulator by building a fast parser and being careful with screen updates.
That used to be the only way to make a graphical program fast, but these days hardware is so fast you can render an entire scene before the next screen refresh and still have cycles to spare. As long as you initiate rendering early enough, it's hard to go much faster.
I'm curious how foot compares to older fast terminal emulators such as Eterm, xterm, and rxvt. I think libvte is neat (anyone can write a terminal app now) but is it resulted in terribly slow programs like gnome terminal. Before that terminal emulators tended to be much faster -- they had to be, because hardware was so much more limited.
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
That makes me sad :/ Though now that you mention it, I recall running Tilix back when I used to run gnome. It’s been quite a few years.
it makes you sad that different people do things differently from you?
No, it makes me sad that I wish more people learned about how awesome kde is.
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
it makes you sad that different people do things differently from you?
No, it makes me sad that I wish more people learned about how awesome kde is.
I used KDE and absolutely loathed it.
Admittedly this was fifteen years ago, but I was blown away by the developers’ inability to make any actual design decisions, instead punting literally everything to a mountain of configuration options.
Case in point, the taskbar system clock. There were no fewer than six full tabs of options to customize its behavior, including the ability to use Swatch Internet Time. Everything else bought into this philosophy too, to the point where I have to believe its users spend more time configuring it than actually doing anything useful or productive.
Hard pass.
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#29As someone who has dabbled in terminal emulation (I was the maintainer of Console Telnet for Win32 twenty years ago), I have respect for someone who takes the time to optimize a terminal emulator by building a fast parser and being careful with screen updates. That used to be the only way to make a graphical program fast, but these days hardware is so fast you can render an entire scene before the next screen refresh…
It’s interesting you call out GNOME Terminal, it’s always been my favorite terminal.
Re: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it makes me sad that I wish more people learned about how awesome kde is.
I used KDE and absolutely loathed it. Admittedly this was fifteen years ago, but I was blown away by the developers’ inability to make any actual design decisions, instead punting literally everything to a mountain of configuration options. Case in point, the taskbar system clock. There were no fewer than six full tabs of options to customize its behavior, including the ability to use Swatch Internet Time. Everything…
Kids today will never know the awesomeness and terribleness of Swatch Internet Time. I remember when they gave a bunch of money to CNN and for a brief period the time listed on articles was Swatch Internet Time.
Late 90s and early 2000s were strange.