Enlightenment Terminal Allows Video Playback, PDF Viewing

An anonymous reader writes "The E17 Enlightenment project has released a new version of its Terminology terminal emulator. With Terminology 0.3 comes several fancy features, including the ability to preview video files, images, and PDF files from within the terminal. There's new escape sequences, inline video playback, and other features to this terminal emulator that's only built on EFL and libc."

Comments

Re:Can it do...

[Ash Vince]

(tell me again: why would someone want to do any of the above in a terminal?)

After having watched the full video of its capabilities I am pretty amazed and certainly some of it will be useful.

I particularly liked things like the ability to use ls to a get a list of files but with small thumbnails next each. You were then able to select the thumbail and see a bigger preview for images and movies. I also like the ability to do things like hover over a file in a "ls" output then just click and drag it but getting a full path to the file.

Re:Can it do...

[raster]

'Because I can' ... yup.

  Seriously though it's zero extra code to handle video in a bg when it's already supported in Popups. It's the same object. It's supported in popups because it's helps people who use terminals for irc, email and more and when they have a link to a video stream they get easy one click access. Users of irssi have been singing terminology's praises for this. There are tonnes of legitimate normal uses of such features. You might not see it now or your usage of terminals is incredibly narrow, but many who live in them all day find these features a godsend.