>>67
I don't give a shit about the VT100, and you shouldn't either. 99.999999999999999999999999999999% of the people running GNU/Linux have a keyboard which has, at least, something resembling a PC keyboard with no less than 100 keys, supports key down and up scancodes, and can display (or at the very worst gracefully ignore) colour attributes. What we need is a console protocol (not X, not plain text with escape shit) for console applications which can run locally or over a remote shell.
>>68
Are you by any chance a first-year student frustrated that Computer Science is not about dragging cute icons around like you do in Windows Solitaire?
First of all, like anybody I have a huge collection of hentai, anime, ripped TV series or all of these, and I like to see filenames such as a01.jpg and f01.jpg line up properly. Second, it's
much faster than using a full-fledged graphic system. Third, it's a matter of aesthetics: I like having fixed character cells, just like I like window snapping and anything that looks fixed and solid. It also helps to prevent idiots from making idiotic GUIs.