Before adding yet another tool doing more or less the same, please
check whether this tool is better for all use cases. In case you
require a "modern terminal" (as mentioned by tiv's web page), consider
"chafa" instead.

I read my mail with mutt on a (often) remote system. I use a terminal
emulator capable of displaying "sixels", and by using chafa, I can
view attached images basically with no need to infer anything from the
images, as if it were a local image viewer.

My only quip about using sixels is that it takes a long time to open a
large image (compared to "cacaterm", what I used before. I think tiv's
quality is better than cacaterm's, but I'm not sure if your needs will
be better covered by chafa.

Loren M. Lang dijo [Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 07:35:24AM -0800]:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Loren M. Lang" <lor...@north-winds.org>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org
> 
> * Package name    : tiv
>   Version         : 1.2.1
>   Upstream Author : Aaron Liu <aaronliu0...@gmail.com>, Stefan Haustein 
> <stefan.haust...@gmail.com>
> * URL             : https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer
> * License         : GPL3, ASL
>   Programming Lang: C++
>   Description     : Small command-line viewer using RGB colors and Unicode 
> block characters to render image
> 
> Small command-line image viewer using 24-bit RGB ANSI colors and Unicode
> block characters which create a 4x8 pixel cell for each character. With
> the use of these Unicode block characters, this can provide a higher
> resolution image for the same screen real estate.
> 
> It was compared with timg and catimg and can get out finer detail than
> those tools and make a sharper presentation. The mail_new.png icon seems
> to have a lot of fine detail with the text on the page. Here is my
> comparision case:
> 
> catimg -H 32 /usr/share/icons/mate/256x256/actions/mail_new.png
> timg -g 32x32 /usr/share/icons/mate/256x256/actions/mail_new.png
> ./tiv -h 32 -w 32 /usr/share/icons/mate/256x256/actions/mail_new.png
> 
> I am currently planning on maintaining it myself, but I am open if there
> is a team that is more appropriate to help with it. The package itself
> is very lightweight and should not require much maintenance. I will need
> a sponsor to get this package into Debian.



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