> Building new walls doesn’t automatically imply tearing old ones down. But often in this space they seem to want to do that anyway. I can only imagine that th

> Building new walls doesn’t automatically imply tearing old ones down. But often in this space they seem to want to do that anyway. I can only imagine that they are attempting to force people to adopt their pet project. There's literally no reason a pair of sequences can't be specified that allows clients to query support for advanced terminal mode and get a response. After the client and the terminal have agreed on advanced mode, switch to a byte stream/command blocks/whatever which allow rich text, graphics, sound, access to UI devices, etc. Whan you're done you've recreated X11, but they can do whatever they like I guess. There's no need to fuck up terminfo along the way though.