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Terminals by name; moving pictures in iTerm2; every picture feature opt-in - #48

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Before: a host passed a bag of TerminalFeatures with nothing saying which terminal has which. A moving picture played in Kitty for every client that had KittyGraphics, and iTerm2 always showed its first frame.

After: TerminalProfile names 16 terminals and what each can be sent, checked against each project's own source and release notes. AnsiOutputOptions.For(terminal, chosen) sends a terminal only what the player has turned on out of what it can do. A picture moves only for a client with the new MovingPictures feature. iTerm2 and WezTerm are sent a looping GIF.

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  • GifWriter writes the GIF: one global palette by median cut over every frame, binned at 5 bits per channel, with no dithering so frames don't shimmer. It uses disposal 2, a NETSCAPE2.0 loop and LZW with table clears. PIL and ffprobe read its output back exactly. The tests decode it with a small GIF reader, including a 128×128, 3-frame picture that fills and clears the LZW table.
  • An iTerm2 sequence longer than the terminal accepts (TerminalProfile.InlineImageLimit, 1 MiB for iTerm2) is sent as MultipartFile/FilePart/FileEnd where the terminal reads parts (iTerm2 3.5+). Where it doesn't, the picture is sent still. With no profile, the iTerm2 limit applies.
  • A frame of 10 ms or less is shown for 100 ms, as browsers show it, in both Kitty (z) and the GIF.
  • Profiles leave out anything unconfirmed. Ghostty can't animate Kitty frames in any release up to 1.3.1. Konsole, VS Code, Rio and mintty show a GIF still or are unverified. WezTerm, Konsole, Contour and VS Code read Kitty graphics without Unicode placeholders, so they get no KittyGraphics. iTerm2 is drawn for with its own protocol, because its Kitty support is unannounced and doesn't animate.
  • README has the terminal table; CHANGELOG has an entry for each change.

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  • New Features
    • Added terminal profiles to identify terminal capabilities and tailor image output, including support for oversized images where multipart transfer is available.
    • Added optional animated-picture playback for compatible Kitty and iTerm2 terminals. Other rendering methods continue to display a still image.
    • Added configurable terminal-aware output options and documented supported terminals and capabilities.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of very short or unset animation frame delays to ensure frames remain visible.

claude added 3 commits October 7, 2026 20:51
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TerminalProfile lists the terminals this package knows, what each can be
sent, and how (iTerm2's 1 MiB sequence limit and its multipart transfer).
AnsiOutputOptions.For sends a terminal only what the player turned on of
what it can do. MovingPictures is a feature of its own, so a picture plays
only for a client that asked. A frame of 10 ms or less is shown for
100 ms, as browsers do.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01448U5MvpKkRkBjwzkkpPFP
Rio, mlterm and tmux added; Ghostty, Konsole, mintty and VS Code show a
GIF still or cannot animate Kitty frames in a release, so they are listed
without MovingPictures; iTerm2 is drawn with its own protocol.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds terminal profiles and a MovingPictures feature. It encodes animated GIFs and updates Kitty and iTerm2 picture output to use animation, frame timing, image-size limits, and multipart transmission.

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Terminal profiles and moving-picture output

Layer / File(s) Summary
Terminal profiles and feature selection
MarkupString.Ansi/TerminalProfile.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/AnsiOutputOptions.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/TerminalFeatures.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt, MarkupString.Tests/Ansi/TerminalProfileTests.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/README.md
Adds known terminal profiles, terminal identification and lookup, capability filtering, and profile-based output options. Adds profile and feature support documentation and tests.
GIF encoding and frame timing
MarkupString.Ansi/Emitters/GifWriter.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/TerminalPicture.cs, MarkupString.Tests/Ansi/TerminalFeatureTests.cs
Adds looping GIF encoding with a shared palette and transparency handling. Uses a 100 ms frame delay when the configured duration is 10 ms or less. Tests GIF frames, timing, transparency, and quantized colors.
Profile-aware picture output
MarkupString.Ansi/Emitters/TerminalPictureWriter.cs, MarkupString.Tests/Ansi/TerminalFeatureTests.cs, MarkupString.Ansi/README.md, CHANGELOG.md
Conditions Kitty animation on MovingPictures. Adds iTerm2 GIF output, image-size limits, multipart transmission, and still-image fallback. Updates tests and documentation for these output paths.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Player
  participant AnsiOutputOptions
  participant TerminalPictureWriter
  participant GifWriter
  participant Kitty terminal
  participant iTerm2 terminal
  Player->>AnsiOutputOptions: For(profile, chosen features)
  AnsiOutputOptions-->>Player: Options with profile-filtered features
  Player->>TerminalPictureWriter: Render picture with options
  alt Kitty with MovingPictures
    TerminalPictureWriter->>Kitty terminal: Send frames with Shown delays
  else iTerm2 with MovingPictures
    TerminalPictureWriter->>GifWriter: Encode picture frames
    GifWriter-->>TerminalPictureWriter: Return looping GIF bytes
    TerminalPictureWriter->>iTerm2 terminal: Send inline image or multipart chunks
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A very small custom multipart limit can interrupt picture rendering. Guard that configuration before splitting images; the risk is limited to host-defined profiles.

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