[Konsole-devel] Gauging Feature Merge Inquiry

[Kurt Hindenburg]

Hi Jacob,
  Thanks for the email.    I'll take a look at your repo when I have the chance.  Since you already have a git repo I would suggest continuing your work there.  You might ping this mailing list again later just to bring it up again.  Currently there are only 3 active developers for Konsole and the lack of manpower might cause delays in looking at this.

  Thanks,
   Kurt

On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Jacob Alexander <triplehaata at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Konsole Team!
> 
> First off, Konsole has always been my favourite terminal emulator. Great job guys!
> (sadly having to install KDE puts me off on some installs due to limited space)
> 
> 
> I'm taking (just finished really) an "Intro to Graphics" at my university (TuxRacer came out of this exact course at UWaterloo). And it was required of me to do a "project" for the course.
> 
> I did an OpenGL terminal emulator. As in each character is rendered individually (either using a Texture mapped font, or each of the pixels individually as 1x1x1 cubes). This allows for animations per character, and per line.
> I've implemented multiple post-processing effects such as Motion Blur, Font Glow, and Reflection.
> 
> Now, to do my development, I used a heavily modified version of qtermwidget that I worked on in 2008 (an old version of Konsole 4 ported to pure Qt4). To start I worked at splitting out only TerminalDisplay.cpp into separate inheritable classes, so I could test the 2D and 3D renders in place. Currently I've been restricted to OpenGL 2.1 (which is what's supported on my system).
> 
> Anyways, before I say more, I probably should show some screenshots (both taken from a computer using an AMD 4870 using the opensource ati driver). It runs very well on recent Intel integrated graphics.
> 
> 
> (This one still had some font alignment issues)
> http://imgur.com/bKdNs
> 
> (Glow, Spline Path, Skybox, Rotation animation, font alignment issues are fixed here)
> http://imgur.com/DoC1b
> 
> 
> There are still lots of bugs, and the performance is lacking (still need to do heavy optimizations), but is showing good promise (did this in about 10 days while working on all my other crazy engineering courses :P).
> 
> So, my question is:
> Would the Konsole team be interested in a feature like this?
> I have no problems cleaning it up (and making it fast, though that will involve more invasive changes to Konsole since I would want to update the history/screen buffer and video buffer simultaneously in order to get rid of latency issues when updating characters and utilizing video buffer for buffer storage) and preparing it for review (according to whatever standards the Konsole team has).
> 
> The 3D renderer would, in no way, replace the current 2D renderer and would be designed to live beside it, so you could turn it on/off. (oh, and I've achieved pixel perfect emulation of fonts when using an Orthographic perspective mode, so yes, you can still use it like a normal terminal, my screenshots are just to show off features)
> 
> 
> Here's the repo if any are interested (basic functionality is there, but I still have a lot of cleanup/optimization to do).
> https://bitbucket.org/HaaTa/baulktermgl/overview 
> (Needs Qt 4.8, and GSL to build, and is only configured to use Terminus atm)
> 
> 
> If there is interest. Let me know what the suggested next steps would be.
> 
> If there isn't any interest (that's ok too), I'll be porting the updates from the latest Konsole into my version, and work on optimizing my features (and doing invasive changes as needed).
> 
> 
> I'm also very interested in comments, and suggestions!
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> -Jacob Alexander
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