Comparable projects and room for cooperation?

[lproven]

This is a very cool project. I found it because something ostensibly quite similar surfaced last week:

https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/desktop-tui

That in turn reminded me very much of TWIN:

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin

I wrote about that (and other windowing terminal multiplexers) recently. I covered TWIN, tmux, dvtm, zellij, GNU screen, byobu and mtm.

It seems to me there is a lot of overlap between these projects. I wonder if there is any way they could work together.

[o-sdn-o]

Thank you for your interest!

https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/desktop-tui
https://github.com/cosmos72/twin

Oh yeah, looking at https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1navap5/desktoptui_a_full_desktop_environment_without/ I remember the vibe when someone posted a link to the vtm project in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24243521. That was 5 years ago and vtm was completely text-based.

Now the distinction between TUI and GUI is completely eliminated (of course not completely yet, since GUI mode is only available on Windows for now, X11 and macOS are waiting). Vtm is not just a text desktop, it is a chassis for a new type of application that can run in both a terminal and a GUI environment -- they automatically determine how to render themselves (unless explicitly specified). All vtm desktop windows can live as independent GUI windows, working the same way as inside a text desktop.

Here is an example of how it now looks and feels on Windows 11: https://youtu.be/4vqzSTfRS6c

I can't guess how much the projects you mentioned are oriented towards the full-fledged GUI side.

[o-sdn-o]

Generally speaking, I am constantly trying to cooperate in some way, offering all sorts of promising things in my opinion to the people of the terminal world

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/issues/23
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/issues/38
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/issues/35

but somehow it doesn’t work out well for me, maybe it’s the language barrier (I don’t speak English), maybe we look at things differently. Perhaps when vtm is ready to the level of a product and not an experiment, and is more or less stable, it may move in this direction.