[HN Gopher] TermKit: A Rich Graphical Terminal (2011)
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TermKit: A Rich Graphical Terminal (2011)
Author : isaacimagine
Score : 14 points
Date : 2022-03-01 17:39 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| desi_ninja wrote:
| Termkit showed great promised but the progress of the project
| fizzled out later. Technical limitations maybe ? Because
| definitely not lack of contribution. This had a lot of eyeballs
| ilaksh wrote:
| Definitely lack of contribution. Regardless of that particular
| project, it's a really useful set of ideas.
|
| People just did not adopt them for other projects.
|
| The thing that most people will possibly never understand is
| that the reason people do things is generally not rational. And
| often the better an idea is, the less likely it is to be
| adopted soon. So the fact that something doesn't become popular
| does NOT mean it doesn't have technical merit or legs. Actually
| it often means the opposite.
|
| Humans, including programmers, are very similar to sheep. And I
| don't mean that in a joking way. I mean literally their
| behavior, including what tools they use for programming, is
| largely decided subconsciously by the activity of the other
| humans around them.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _Is TermKit dead? Why?_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4787211 - Nov 2012 (1
| comment)
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| _Why did TermKit die?_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3154553 - Oct 2011 (1
| comment)
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| _TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559734 - May 2011 (200
| comments)
|
| _TermKit - Next Generation Terminal /Command Application_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2542068 - May 2011 (2
| comments)
| satiric wrote:
| This isn't a bad solution, and something like this is sorely
| needed. I completely agree with the idea that the limitations of
| technology from 40 years ago shouldn't be holding us back
| nowadays. It's no coincidence that all the major development in
| unix-like operating systems happened in the days when there was
| only 1 unix-like operating system, and it was controlled by 1
| organization.
|
| The greatest failure of Linux is that it's _not_ an operating
| system, but a kernel upon which dozens of operating systems are
| built. It seems to me like the number one reason why people don
| 't use Linux is that there is no central authority over user
| experience, and thus no way to get everyone to standardize to
| something. This is not even remotely a problem with Windows and
| Mac OS! And you can see the problems with this architecture when
| you realize how ancient and arcane the terminal UX is. But until
| we ditch it, we'll be stuck in the land of POSIX forever.
| euroderf wrote:
| There's no releases at the github repo. Maybe there's a mac build
| available somewhere? Building fails on my mac, because
| javascript.
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