Hacker News Reader

Comment by aumerle | Hacker News Reader

Man what an agenda.

1) sixel has no querying. So if you want to compare apples to apples, you leave out the querying from the kitty protocol as well.

2) The code I linked to above uses only the standard library which I emphasized. You are using some random sizel specific library to add support for sixel to your perl script.

So no, you dont meet the challenge. I can output images with the kitty protocol using pure BASH + base64, available everywhere.

Oh and incidentally the saitoha sixel library is both unmaintained and full of security issues, so save yourself some headaches and dump it. Trying to claim the kitty protocol is harder to use than sixel is beyond disingenuous.

View on HN

> only the standard library

Either you have PNG data, or you have to support the various RGB encodings

> I can output images with the kitty protocol using pure BASH + base64, available everywhere.

This is disingenuous: so can I if instead of .PNG files, I have .SIX files.

I won't even need base64 - which you'll need to write in shell script if you write a portable bash script. And if want you want to show isn't .png or .jpg, you'll need more...

> Trying to claim the kitty protocol is harder to use than sixel is beyond disingenuous.

Funny, because I think the same about you.

Given the tone of your previous post, and the tone of this post, I'm out.

Yes and PNG is an actual file format widely used and available. SIX isnt. And sure if you want to invent mythical SIX file formats, I can just as well invent mythical KITTY_IMAGE file formats that you can just cat into a terminal, without needing even base64 or bash. The point is, as it stands, the kitty image protocol is FAR easier to USE to display images than sixels. Trying to claim otherwise is just ridiculous. Indeed, if you want to talk of ease of use, the iterm2 protocol is even easier, since iterm supports more image formats without requiring conversion to RGB.

Good that you are out, hopefully you are out of trying to shill sixels as well.

> Good that you are out, hopefully you are out of trying to shill sixels as well.

I suggest a hard look in the mirror or at your post history to see the kitty fanboyism tuned to 11 (file format, keyboard shortcuts, etc)

Oh I dont hide the fact that I love kitty. I have good reason to do so, it has almost single handedly fixed so many problems that haveplagues the terminal space for decades. And done so in a robust, thoughtful and well designed manner. If you dont like kitty that's fine. But PLEASE do not advocate broken, badly designed disasters like SIXEL and modifyOtherKeys. they will just doom this ecosystem for decades more.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com