There is a long abandoned (but it still runs) project called eDEX-UI (https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui) which basically provides a working, useable terminal surrounded by all sorts of the crap visual appearance of hacker terminals in the movies. Pair that with a terminal editor and you've almost got a movie IDE!

It's kinda fun for a while although I'd be amazed if anyone actually used it as their main terminal emulator program. But you could.

[–] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could see it being a real thing. When you're making a game it gives you visualization for animations (both physics and visual-only) and shaders (maybe even a simplified stylized version). Random benchmark results/debug info. Drawing attention to syntax mistakes. An important email or video call pops up.

It would be cool and potentially useful, but completely un-asked for and likely distracting and a waste of space. Basically what if your computer was a non-cartoon clippy.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or you can just, you know, timeshare it by interleaving running the code time with making code time, thus having maximal screen size for both.

(Source: I'm actually making a game right now ... or should if I wasn't making posts in Lemmy ;))

[–] dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

outside of the keyboard, you could defiantly make this into a viable terminal interface. just make sure all of the "widgets" are relevant information and its not a bad idea.

[–] SirFaffles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There's dif themes that get rid of the keyboard and add and remove things, plus I'm p sure you can write your own