You know, I've been doing a lot of linux / ssh work recently, and I'd love to have something in the console that could give me more of a graphical interface. The midnight commander is good, but a file manager, document preview tool would be awesome. Particularly since so much of the content we produce today is graphical in some way. Something that we could use over SSH without setting up RDP / VNC - I don't need an entire desktop, and often don't have the bandwidth to make it viable anyway. Do you think that something like RIPScript could be used for that? Would there be a way to create a linux graphical terminal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel for displaying static images or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS for vector graphics.
Sadly I think only xterm fully supports these.
Though the modern alternative would be an escape sequence to request a file descriptor into which to just dump an html document. Your OS already has a browser, the terminal should be able to just embed it above the commandline to display graphics.
