Tattoy
Dev tools
terminal compositor
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How HN took it
11 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.
Design: 4 for, 5 againstIdea: 4 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean presentation and high-quality work
From 2 comments
Thank you for (1) sharing a fascinating project that has nothing to do with "AI," (2) mentioning not once, anywhere, even in the repo docs (as far as I can tell) that Tattoy is…
globnomulous on HNSUPER COOL
gfalcao on HN
Fun visual effects and shader ideas
From 2 comments
Oh wow, now I can finally have terminal that creates fire effects the faster I type! (if I ever get the time to make the plugin) Is there anyway for plugins to interact with…
grandma_tea on HNThis is like the pinnacle of term ricing, I love it
ramon156 on HN
Interesting protocol evolution idea
From 2 comments
I especially like the idea of evolving the protocol. Just because the text first ui is a great idea doesn’t mean we achieved perfection with ansi escape codes.
sevensor on HNThis is brilliant, thanks for making public and best wishes
nerflad on HN
Objections
Palette parsing fails on some terminals due to inaccurate color rendering
From 2 comments
This looks really cool, I'd like to give it a go. The idea of taking a screenshot of the terminal and then parsing that to determine the true colour support is definitely novel,…
tfsh on HNThanks for trying it out. It looks like either your terminal or screenshotter isn't faithfully rendering the pure red marker column (it's needed for calibration in the parser).…
tombh on HN
Videos autoplay fullscreen on mobile, hurting the website experience
From 2 comments
Id probably have an easier time finding out about this project if it didn't full screen auto play videos as I scroll?
djaychela on HNI get the same experience on iOS using the OS web view - my guess is because iOS (and maybe android?) don’t typically play videos in “windowed mode” (for lack of a better term)…
phatskat on HN
Light theme gives white on white text
From 1 comment
my first attempt at using a light theme with gnome-terminal gets me white on white either in the prompt or on the commandline itself. don't have time to debug that now though.…
em-bee on HN
High memory use concern
From 1 comment
Because why shouldn't my terminal be the largest consumer of memory on my PC?
cenobyte on HN
Requests
Support OSC 4 palette querying instead of screenshots
From 1 comment
> The idea of taking a screenshot of the terminal and then parsing that to determine the true colour support is definitely novel, A better way to do this is to send `OSC 1 0 ; ?…
shiomiru on HN
Windows support and beta testing
From 2 comments
I see you added then removed Windows from your Release plan: https://github.com/tattoy-org/tattoy/issues/42 So, it is supported or not? Looks great by the way.
TheSilva on HNIf you need Windows beta testers, I'd be happy to volunteer.
globnomulous on HN
Light theme examples
From 1 comment
Tattoy manages its own scrollback buffer (like say `tmux` does), and so can therefore also provide its own scrollbar. this raises two questions: doesn't every (gui) terminal do…
em-bee on HN
Questions
How tmux scrollback interacts with Tattoy
From 1 comment
my first attempt at using a light theme with gnome-terminal gets me white on white either in the prompt or on the commandline itself. don't have time to debug that now though.…
em-bee on HN
Whether plugins can interact with shaders
From 1 comment
Oh wow, now I can finally have terminal that creates fire effects the faster I type! (if I ever get the time to make the plugin) Is there anyway for plugins to interact with…
grandma_tea on HN
Whether it can run Doom
From 1 comment
Can it run doom?
ainiriand on HN
Alternatives named
Arcan
From 1 comment
Interesting project. You might check out Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com/) if you've never heard of it. (EDIT: I see author recently added a link:…
cb321 on HN
tmux
From 1 comment
Tattoy manages its own scrollback buffer (like say `tmux` does), and so can therefore also provide its own scrollbar. this raises two questions: doesn't every (gui) terminal do…
em-bee on HN