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points by sho_hn 2 days ago | 0 comments

I'm from the KDE project, and have been working on a new frontend built on libghostty-vt to hopefully one day ease our maintenance burden.

It's been a quite smooth experience, and I remain very excited about the lib. I believe you are successfully setting the standard. Big congrats for your 1.4.0!

[–] c-hendricks 2 days ago

Ooooo, will this end up in Konsole / konsolepart? Or will it be a new app?

[–] sho_hn 2 days ago

It'll be a new app, but it does provide a drop-in replacement for konsolepart (along with also having a QML module API for embeds into Qt Quick-based app, closing a gap Konsole currently leaves open). I'm sure it'll be some time before it would be ready to replace Konsole as default, also because conversations like that take some time and are a community process.

[–] kombine 2 days ago

Oh Konsole while great (efficient and feature-rich) is showing its age and has a bit of a widget bloat and an unwieldy configuration system. For that reason I switched to Kitty a couple of years ago when I was transitioning to neovim I'm have not looked back since.

This looks like a great opportunity for the KDE project to rethink its terminal application for the modern age. Text-based config would be amazing though not sure how it'll fit into KDE Frameworks etc.

[–] WesolyKubeczek 1 day ago

Surely you know konsolerc is text-based, right?

[–] KetoManx64 14 hours ago

Plus one on this one. I have chezmoi apply my konsole settings onto every new machine and sync the settings between machines as I modify them over time.