Graphics. They're network transparent, and take over the terminal.

Terminal apps were obsolete once we had invented the pixel. Unix just provides no good way to write one that can be used remotely.

em-bee 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Unix just provides no good way to write one that can be used remotely

well that's the issue, isn't it?

the graphics options that we have are slow and complex, and they don't solve the problems like a terminal and therefore the terminal persist.

kps 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

A network-transparent graphics protocol? Who would ever think of such a thing?

	▲	em-bee 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		that's actually not what i am after. what i envision is a graphical terminal, that is a terminal that uses graphic elements to display the output. consider something like grep on multiple files. it should produce a list of lines found. the graphical terminal takes that list and displays it. it can distinguish the different components of that list, the filenames, the lines matched, the actual match, etc. because it can distinguish the elements, it can lay them out nicely. a column for the filenames, colors for the matched parts, counts, etc. grep would not produce any graphics here, just semantic output that my imagined graphical terminal would be able to interpret and visualize.