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Orhun Parmaksız 👾You asked, the Rust/TUI community delivered.
**desktop-tui** ~ A full desktop environment... without graphics.
Michael McCune ☮️@orhun i've been waiting for a worthy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview successor for decades... ❤️
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@gravitos looks cool!
mcc@orhun Don't forget to combine with a TUI web browser
Lucas Treffenstädt@orhun someone package this into aur
Klaus Frank@orhun Hmm, would this run on one of these old pre win95 computers?
Tim ChaseWhile I'm not sure about (pre)Win95 since I imagine it uses terminal escape sequences to render things which (pre)Win95 was pretty bad at.
That said, I imagine that it would run just fine on hardware of that vintage—thinking about an old 2001-era Celeron laptop I had that ran OpenBSD—without issue.
Now *building* such a rust project on that hardware? Budget a day or three… 😆
King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi@orhun A well-made TUI is beautiful in its functional minimalism. 💙
Joana de Castro Arnaud@orhun
I'm old enough to remember Turbo Pascal, the first IDE I used - on MS-DOS. Desktop-TUI is *better*, from the provided demo. Great work!
I'm old enough to remember Turbo Pascal, the first IDE I used - on MS-DOS. Desktop-TUI is *better*, from the provided demo. Great work!
Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann@orhun I'm a Go meetup organizer. Not a big meetup, but anyway, one of the participant, very quiet, told me about a toy library he was experimenting with.
I told him he should present it.
It took me a few meetups to motivate him to show it. He was very shy and unsure of it all. The code is not good, bla bla bla.
And that guy showed us a frigging demo with windowing system in TUI, with window resizing, picture viewer with double the "pixel" size with a trick of using background color + foreground color on the same character, etc etc.
I was so angry that he kept this away from the world for so long. It was incredible. I'm still not sure he published it/shared. I need to ask again. I would share some screens.
People are amazing and they don't even know it.
systmShck@orhun this is beautiful
crzwdjk ✅ @orhun If I ever pick my terminal project back up, this is definitely going to be one the the stress tests.
Wade McGillis@orhun I thought that was called emacs
ARGVMI~1.PIF“Are we GUI yet?” was apparently the wrong question. https://areweguiyet.com/
GothPanda@orhun aaahhhh! I've been waiting for something like this!!