I'm constantly annoyed by programs that try to make "fancy" terminal UIs, with a ton of formatting, colors, utilizing as many terminal features as they possibly can. It just seems like such a hack to me.
The terminal IS NOT meant for fancy user interfaces, stop abusing it for that. Use a real GUI framework that has actual graphics instead of character cells.
The question is where to draw the line, I believe things like htop, tmux etc are reasonable, so it's hard to say whether a particular program is "abusing" the terminal.
The terminal IS NOT meant for fancy user interfaces, stop abusing it for that. Use a real GUI framework that has actual graphics instead of character cells.
The question is where to draw the line, I believe things like htop, tmux etc are reasonable, so it's hard to say whether a particular program is "abusing" the terminal.