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Can you, github.com/jwilm, github.com/kovidgoyal et al get together and instead give us a better standard that all 3 of you implement? I am sorry but I won't use your terminal just for one feature, I can use a dedicated image viewer.

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So far my version is just a crudely hacked together proof of concept on top of st I did as hobby. It just renders textured polygons without any shaders or more advanced stuff. Since this is my first OpenGL application ever it probably won't ever be released to the public. Somebody else with more experience should rather do it. A More advanced protocol like Valves Fossilize (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Fossilize) should be used for that which means I can throw away my code anyways at this point.

However serialized graphics does not seem a project goal of either kitty or alacritty.

kitty has image support

It implements its own protocol (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol.html) to display images. This is something different from serialized OpenGL.

Nice.

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