kui.nvim VS arcan

Compare kui.nvim vs arcan and see what are their differences.

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kui.nvim arcan
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11 months ago 4 days ago
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MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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kui.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of kui.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-19.
  • Ask HN: Is the line between TUIs and GUIs blurring?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 May 2024
    I've heard a lot that a benefit for using terminal software over GUI apps is that they use much less resources. And that's why its better to SSH into servers rather than have them use up resources for a display server, Quartz X11 Wayland etc.. But terminals aren't just outputting raw text, they have text and background colors per character, TUI frameworks have been made for them to essentially have GUI-like elements, like Neovim and Ranger. Things like the [Kitty Graphics Protocol](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/) seem to blur the lines. While I don't know the technical details (please explain if you can!), it's nice that it can render images in the terminal, but how is it different, especially the technical details and resource demand (CPU GPU RAM etc.) to display servers?! Does it work without a display server running on the client, like a "raw" linux terminal where the desktop environment isn't loaded?

    I haven't look at this much either but there's also [kui.nvim](https://github.com/romgrk/kui.nvim), a terminal GUI framework built on-top of Kitty Graphics and it seems to escape the TUI constraint of only being able to visualize things with text characters, being able to draw elements of any length. There's a [comment](https://new.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/110znd4/comment/j8f6pb6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) on this [Reddit post showcasing kui.nvim](https://new.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/110znd4/kuinvim_an_experiment_into_a_real_graphical/) discussing the benefits of a terminal are that it's not a GUI. But if you were to use this, then how much would it be different from just using Obsidian with its various plugins along with with [Obisidian-bridge.nvim](https://github.com/oflisback/obsidian-bridge.nvim)?

    So what makes a terminal a terminal, different from GUIs and full desktop environments? Is it the low resource usage, is it still low with Kitty Graphics and kui.nvim? Is it the keyboard-centric interaction for higher efficiency? Is it because of the other benefits of commands environments, like unix stdin and stdout piping? If you want full blown GUIs in a terminal environment then how is it much different than using a GUI app with full keyboard navigation and text inputs? How do you feel about rendering full GUI graphics in a terminal?

    Personally I like the idea of rendering graphics in a terminal environment is it would be overall better than using GUI apps for the reasons listed above, but I'm feeling reluctant on that.

  • kirby.nvim: design update
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 7 Jun 2023
    Not sure if it's clear enough, but it's based on https://github.com/romgrk/kui.nvim
  • [UI question] Is there any way to make float window style like IDEA or VS Code?
    1 project | /r/neovim | 30 Mar 2023
    It is technically possible, but you'd need something experimental like this: https://github.com/romgrk/kui.nvim
  • kui.nvim - an experiment into a real graphical framework, with kitty & cairo
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 12 Feb 2023

arcan

Posts with mentions or reviews of arcan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kui.nvim and arcan you can also consider the following projects:

kui-demo.nvim - kui.nvim demo

hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)

kirby.nvim - Fuzzy picker for neovim - using kitty graphics protocol

waybox - An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP)

fzy-lua-native - Luajit FFI bindings to FZY

openbsd-wip - OpenBSD work in progress ports

glaucus - A simple and lightweight Linux® distribution based on musl libc and toybox

ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)

rdrview - Firefox Reader View as a command line tool

etlegacy - ET: Legacy is an open source project based on the code of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory which was released in 2010 under the terms of the GPLv3 license.

gluon - a modular framework for creating OpenWrt-based firmwares for wireless mesh nodes

obs-gnome-screencast - GNOME Screen Cast OBS Studio plugin

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