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Evaluate textual as an urwid replacement

Open geier opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

We currently use urwid for ikhal and while it works fine, its development seems to have stalled. On the other hand, a new contender for the same space has emerged: textual. Textual promises to be faster and have better maintenance (two full time developers).

We should evaluate what advantages textual has and if the work of porting ikhal to textual is worth it.

geier avatar Aug 04 '22 09:08 geier

I see it uses rich under the hood, which has always caught my attention.

I think this might be a really interesting fit, and a good opportunity to refactor and improve UI responsiveness a bit.

WhyNotHugo avatar Aug 05 '22 11:08 WhyNotHugo

Textual has matured a lot in the last few months, and I see it as a very good alternative to the harder-to-write urwid :)

octoshrimpy avatar Oct 01 '23 06:10 octoshrimpy

I would love to see that in khal!

maxclac avatar Nov 03 '23 12:11 maxclac