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  • #11
    Real terminal emulators? There is only XTerm.

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    • #12
      Originally posted by c117152 View Post
      A stand alone terminal will need to duplicate a whole lot of functionality the GUI tool kits already implement. i.e. If you wanted a stand alone Terminal, you'd need to write a font rendering library, an abstraction around the native APIs (X and Wayland for linux, USER\MFC\.Net\Metro for Windows...), something for concurrency, something to handle mouse input, audio output for the beeps and such, maybe an image library to go beyond vt100... Essentially, you'll be writing a fair sized GUI Tool Kit even before starting.
      Mouse? Threading? Why would you need those?

      The rest is far from that complex. Beeps are done by emitting a special char. Font rendering is one call per line to Xft. The only somewhat complex part is emulating all the weird terminals - if you don't care for that, it's quite simple.

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      • #13
        Originally posted by c117152 View Post
        A stand alone terminal will need to duplicate a whole lot of functionality the GUI tool kits already implement. i.e. If you wanted a stand alone Terminal, you'd need to write a font rendering library, an abstraction around the native APIs (X and Wayland for linux, USER\MFC\.Net\Metro for Windows...), something for concurrency, something to handle mouse input, audio output for the beeps and such, maybe an image library to go beyond vt100... Essentially, you'll be writing a fair sized GUI Tool Kit even before starting.
        Or, get this, they could make a "core" backend that can be used with different front-ends (see: limetext). This way, each DE could, if they wanted, make their own fancy front-end using their favorite toolkit but all would contribute to the same back-end.
        Supporting X and Wayland would be pretty simple at that point...

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        • #14
          Originally posted by curaga View Post
          Mouse? Threading? Why would you need those?
          Tabs, Copy-pasting...

          Originally posted by curaga View Post
          The rest is far from that complex. Beeps are done by emitting a special char.
          Which the emulator needs to translate into sound. Last I've checked linux's sound was multi headed hydra that needs big fat libraries just to output a simple beep.

          Originally posted by curaga View Post
          Font rendering is one call per line to Xft.
          xft as in the X Font library,,, A library dependency specifically for X. i.e. no Wayland for you.

          Originally posted by curaga View Post
          The only somewhat complex part is emulating all the weird terminals - if you don't care for that, it's quite simple.
          What's weird about wanting UTF-8 unicode support in the terminal? There is serious work being done on both user land and in the kernel for the last couple of years: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/ . Hopefully once it lands in a distribution near you, you will see why it's useful. I personally had the "pleasure" of trying to delete foreign named files over SSH and serial ports on multiple occasions. As you might imagine, it was quite frustrating.

          Originally posted by Daktyl198 View Post
          Or, get this, they could make a "core" backend that can be used with different front-ends (see: limetext). This way, each DE could, if they wanted, make their own fancy front-end using their favorite toolkit but all would contribute to the same back-end.
          Supporting X and Wayland would be pretty simple at that point...


          Are you new to linux?
          Last edited by c117152; 09 December 2013, 04:10 PM.

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          • #15
            Originally posted by curaga View Post
            The only somewhat complex part is emulating all the weird terminals - if you don't care for that, it's quite simple.
            I thought we were talking about building a common terminal emulator that everyone could use, regardless of their favourite desktop? What you seem to be talking about is having one that provides just the functions you need, and never mind other people....

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            • #16
              Originally posted by Daktyl198 View Post
              Or, get this, they could make a "core" backend that can be used with different front-ends (see: limetext). This way, each DE could, if they wanted, make their own fancy front-end using their favorite toolkit but all would contribute to the same back-end.
              Supporting X and Wayland would be pretty simple at that point...
              I don't get how that would affect supporting X/Wayland. In fact, it would be orthogonal to that. Supporting windowing systems is the toolkit's job.

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              • #17
                Originally posted by curaga View Post
                Mouse? Threading? Why would you need those?

                The rest is far from that complex. Beeps are done by emitting a special char. Font rendering is one call per line to Xft. The only somewhat complex part is emulating all the weird terminals - if you don't care for that, it's quite simple.
                Copy paste?

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                • #18
                  Originally posted by dh04000 View Post
                  Something I've never gotten is WHY each desktop environment feels like needs to build a terminal off of their libraries.
                  Well, those libraries give the terminal abilities that would normally not be possible.

                  For example, with terminology, you can view and run multimedia files. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibPziLRGvkg .

                  It has more unique features, but those shown in the video are certainly some of the more interesting ideas.

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                  • #19
                    Originally posted by c117152 View Post
                    http://xkcd.com/927/

                    Are you new to linux?
                    lol no, I was just providing a solution to before :P

                    Originally posted by Ancurio View Post
                    I don't get how that would affect supporting X/Wayland. In fact, it would be orthogonal to that. Supporting windowing systems is the toolkit's job.
                    I think you should tell the people over at Gnome. Apparently, they don't know it since after they ported GTK to work on Wayland, most of their apps still didn't work!! /s
                    There can be X-specific calls within the application as well, not going through the toolkit. There are a lot of applications with this, actually, since most people came to expect X11 to be on every Linux desktop...

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                    • #20
                      Originally posted by Daktyl198 View Post
                      There can be X-specific calls within the application as well, not going through the toolkit. There are a lot of applications with this, actually, since most people came to expect X11 to be on every Linux desktop...
                      That's curious.. what could you possibly do with Xlib that is not connected to the windowing system?

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