contour-terminal / terminal-good-image-protocol

*Good* Image Protocol - a formalization of a proposal for a new image protocol for virtual terminal emulators
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Terminal *Good* Image Protocol

IMPORTANT: THIS PROJECT IS IN ALPHA STAGE & ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT

This repository aims to finish and formalize the *Good* Image Protocol that was posted on terminal-wg issue #26.

Goal of this repository

I want to finally formalize what other people have been already put great work in (see references), and also come up with a reference implementation (for verifying the spec and as a technical preview).

It would be nice if this repository serves as a communication hub for improving this spec that ideally enough terminal emulators will adopt so we could call this the future defacto image protocol for terminals, so that developers have it easier in the future on how to get images into their terminal applications.

Roadmap

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