Feature request: Image support

[jrvgr]

hi i would like to see image embeds being shown in the client itself instead of needing a external viewer for it

[DremOSDeveloperTeam]

Looking into this.

[TheScreechingBagel]

w3m ,the terminal browser does this:
https://github.com/tokuhirom/w3m/blob/master/w3mimg/x11/x11_w3mimg.c
edit: this is x11-only though...
and depends on xterm

[DremOSDeveloperTeam]

The implementation I attempted used SIXEL instead. Most terminals still don't support this standard, but actually printing the SIXEL escape sequences to the correct location and having it scroll does not seem easy, at least to me. The code that actually downloads and translates images to SIXEL escape sequences is done, and avalible in the "images" branch on my fork (after I push what I've pulled together tonight).

[TheScreechingBagel]

Here is a ranger issue #mentioning this:ranger/ranger#1476
It mentions imv

[KodiCraft]

A Kitty based implementation with something like icat would be neat, but that would probably have to be implemented in a completely different way

[emilydaemon]

Being able to use chafa as the image backend would be nice.

[carterprince]

If this is implemented, it should definitely use ueberzug in my opinion. It would probably be complicated, though. For now, as a workaround, there should be a hotkey to open the link to an image in your preferred image viewer.

[diamondburned]

6cord had sixel support then why not discordo?

6cord actually did not have SIXEL support. As @DremOSDeveloperTeam pointed out, supporting SIXEL in something like tview is tedious work.

That said, tcell-sixel could be of use for that. foot also supports SIXEL.

[peepo5]

@diamondburned it looks pretty good. Videos could also be implemented (but it would require some work haha)

[Cons-Cat]

Animated images that can move in a terminal efficiently is precisely what the Kitty graphics protocol was invented to do.

[Cons-Cat]

Animated images that can move in a terminal efficiently is precisely what the Kitty graphics protocol was invented to do.

Fuck you why are you obsessed with kitty shitty ?

Do you honestly think that Sixel is as good as Kitty's protocol?

[diamondburned]

Who told you? Then what is this? https://github.com/diamondburned/real6cord

It's garbage that does not work 🙃

Try asking the developer and see what they have to say about it.

P/S: I'm not going to babysit this issue (it's not my issue), but I would much rather we maintain a constructive tone rather than yelling "dose of copium" at someone else. I don't think that's at all productive or helpful to anyone.

[ayn2op]

https://github.com/rivo/tview/wiki/Image