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boxdot / gurk-rs

Signal Messenger client for terminal
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to consider: preview images and videos via textmode representations #165

Open herrsimon opened 2 years ago

herrsimon commented 2 years ago

There are certainly more pressing issues to take care of before considering this one, but it's always good to have things on the horizon:

Nowadays it is possible to convert images and even videos in surprisingly good quality for viewing in a terminal. This should be taken advantage of in order to optionally include previews of attachments in the message section (for videos, one should just show a single frame as a picture).

As a side effect, this feature would certainly attract lots of new users (whether that's good or bad is up to you to decide).

lacamar commented 1 year ago

An integration of ueberzug is also worth considering for image previews since it can render them in full quality inside the terminal.