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Hmm: > Development of Kmscon stopped in March 2015. There was a successor project called systemd-consoled, but this project was also later dropped in July 2015
by shmerl 5y ago
Hmm:
> Development of Kmscon stopped in March 2015. There was a successor project called systemd-consoled, but this project was also later dropped in July 2015.
That doesn't sound very promising. Why can't kernel itself ship a more advanced terminal?
- di4na 5y agoBecause noone is paid to do it.
- goldorak 5y agoThat's obviously not the reason, there is a lot of good stuff done by volunteers, it's niche and not enough ppl care about it.
- throwaway82652 5y ago>Why can't kernel itself ship a more advanced terminal? Probably because nobody wants to put opentype font rendering and input method support and various other things from a window system into the kernel? This stuff all has to be in userspace so you're better off just running a minimal X or Wayland server at that point.
- shmerl 5y agoWider color support hardly requires having complex font rendering features.