Before adding yet another tool doing more or less the same, please check whether this tool is better for all use cases. In case you require a "modern terminal" (as mentioned by tiv's web page), consider "chafa" instead. I read my mail with mutt on a (often) remote system. I use a terminal emulator capable of displaying "sixels", and by using chafa, I can view attached images basically with no need to infer anything from the images, as if it were a local image viewer. My only quip about using sixels is that it takes a long time to open a large image (compared to "cacaterm", what I used before. I think tiv's quality is better than cacaterm's, but I'm not sure if your needs will be better covered by chafa. Loren M. Lang dijo [Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 07:35:24AM -0800]: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@north-winds.org> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > * Package name : tiv > Version : 1.2.1 > Upstream Author : Aaron Liu <aaronliu0130@gmail.com>, Stefan Haustein <stefan.haustein@gmail.com> > * URL : https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer > * License : GPL3, ASL > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : Small command-line viewer using RGB colors and Unicode block characters to render image > > Small command-line image viewer using 24-bit RGB ANSI colors and Unicode > block characters which create a 4x8 pixel cell for each character. With > the use of these Unicode block characters, this can provide a higher > resolution image for the same screen real estate. > > It was compared with timg and catimg and can get out finer detail than > those tools and make a sharper presentation. The mail_new.png icon seems > to have a lot of fine detail with the text on the page. Here is my > comparision case: > > catimg -H 32 /usr/share/icons/mate/256x256/actions/mail_new.png > timg -g 32x32 /usr/share/icons/mate/256x256/actions/mail_new.png > ./tiv -h 32 -w 32 /usr/share/icons/mate/256x256/actions/mail_new.png > > I am currently planning on maintaining it myself, but I am open if there > is a team that is more appropriate to help with it. The package itself > is very lightweight and should not require much maintenance. I will need > a sponsor to get this package into Debian. --
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