[Konsole-devel] Gauging Feature Merge Inquiry

[Jacob Alexander]

Not a problem.

There's no rush in getting this merged. I'm more trying to gauge interest,
and figure out how the Konsole team would like me to integrate the feature.
Once I finish up with exams, I'll start work adapting my current renderer
to the latest Konsole source.

Thanks,
-Jacob

P.S. Is there a particular formatting/style guide I should be following? Or
is it, "just me sensible".

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Kurt Hindenburg
<kurt.hindenburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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