I’m not sure this is the right community.

I’ve been hoping for a TUI frontend for Lemmy for a while, but unfortunately none came out and I’ve decided to build a proof of concept on my own.

It’s written in python with pythorhead, blessed and chafa.py and it’s quite janky.

  • LainOfTheWired@lemy.lolEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    That looks epic!

    Please add the ability to view images with an external image viewer as I find a lot of social TUI apps seem to lack that.

    Add that and you’re making my ideal Lemmy client

    • crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      Thank you, that’s so kind! I’ll probably try to tackle the comments first as they come quite messy from the api, then I’ll probably give the images a go.

      To be honest, I’m hoping this project doesn’t get out of my league too quickly as a have almost no experience with working with apis.

      • KiranWells@pawb.social
        7·
        11 months ago

        You might look into displaying images in the terminal as well; many modern terminals support showing actual images natively

  • shartworxEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    Have you looked at Textual? It probably has more functionality than blessed.

    • crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      I went with chafa as it’s terminal agnostic and supports various modes.

      Then again, I’m not really sure a tui frontend needs high quality image rendering. Earlier I even considered going completely 1bit braille or just ASCII just so that the image doesn’t take all of the focus at the expense of the post body.

      As mentioned by another commenter, I believe opening the full image in an external viewer is a much better solution, not to mention easier to implement.

      • djtech@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        A quick research tells me that there aren’t patches for other emulators, but the protocol seems well described, so making those patches is possible. I could also take a look at Alacritty source code and deicide if I could make this project work.

    • crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      There is one named neonmodem overdrive but it is buggy.

      It really is buggy, iirc I couldn’t even get it to run properly.

      It also support discourse forums any plan for this?

      I really don’t have any plans (or even a name) for the app, as I’ve just started playing around with pythorhead yesterday. I just hoped posting a prototype or a proof of concept might spark a discussion and maybe inspire someone much more competent than me.

    • crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      While complex tuis are definitely not my cup of tea (I prefer cli tools to be simple, otherwise I would probably use a proper gui), I’m really happy that I’m not the only one wishing for a way to access lemmy from the terminal.

    • crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Link returns “This site can’t be reachedThe webpage at https://files.catbox.moe/8g7agm.mp4 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.”.

      It seems to be working for me.

      Do you have a github or codeberg link?

      I didn’t think anyone would have interest in it so i haven’t uploaded it. After new year’s I could clean it up a bit and host it on github.

      Maybe we should add it to awesome-lemmy?.

      I think it may be e a bit too early for that. At the current state it supports dynamic fetching of the feed in the background (quite buggy), paginating and displaying long posts and displaying top level comments only. At the current state it’s quite enough for me to enjoy a few (more like a few dozen) posts, but definitely not anywhere close to “awesome”.

  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
    2·
    11 months ago

    One reason more to stop with the silly text-in-image posts. There’s a text-only post option, you know guys? Lemmy is not Instagram.