TermKit: a new concept of the console with a graphical output

The command shell (console) is perhaps the most archaic element of Unix, which has remained almost unchanged for thirty years. We love it, but it seems strange to someone to sit at the monitor with millions of pixels, looking at the console window of the sample of the 70s every day, when all the information on computers was exclusively in text form.


And what if you add directly to the console display graphics, video and other types of data, not just text? Modifying the conceptual principles of the command shell is a crazy idea, but nobody forbids experimenting.

This is how TermKit appeared - a command shell on the WebKit engine. It is capable of displaying lists, tables, images, download bars, and so on.


In a short video you can see the console in action. TermKit displays everything that the browser, including HTML5 content.
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