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I've started building a TUI for Lemmy
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I went with chafa as it's terminal agnostic and supports various modes.
Then again, I'm not really sure a tui frontend needs high quality image rendering. Earlier I even considered going completely 1bit braille or just ASCII just so that the image doesn't take all of the focus at the expense of the post body.
As mentioned by another commenter, I believe opening the full image in an external viewer is a much better solution, not to mention easier to implement.
You could also look into using sixel. It's kinda like the kitty protocol but older and terminal agnostic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
Thanks, I've only heard of sixel, but never really read into it. Sounds promising.
A suggestion is do it like neofetch and let the user choose. Amazing work.