Can brick support a sixel image widget?

[amano-kenji]

Sixel is a terminal image display protocol. It has its own terminal escape sequences.

Go's tcell terminal rendering library doesn't support sixel. Someone submitted a pull request that adds sixel support to tcell, but it hasn't been merged for nearly 2 years. I expect it to take at least a decade for it to be merged if it is merged at all. Pull requests that aren't merged for months tend to be ignored for ever. I love brick because its maintainer is quick to merge or close pull requests.

I wonder whether brick can be made to support a sixel image widget. Can it support sixel images?

[jtdaugherty]

This is more of a vty question; brick could support sixel images so long as they were an Image primitive in vty. If someone wanted to work on a patch for vty to add them, they would Just Work in brick via Brick.Widgets.Core.raw. (I say "someone" since I'm not inclined to do it myself, but I'm not opposed to the feature.)

[amano-kenji]

It's good to know that brick and vty can at least be made to support sixel as a widget.