Bug 23429

Summary: yaft (yet another framebuffer terminal), supports sixel graphics, thus allowing gnuplot to give high quality graphical output without needing Xorg or Wayland.
Product: Mageia Reporter: Ethan Merritt <eamerritt>
Component: New RPM package requestAssignee: All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal CC: geiger.david68210, mageia, mageia, marja11, rverschelde
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: yaft CVE:
Status comment:

Description Ethan Merritt 2018-08-12 00:37:16 CEST 
Inclusion of yaft would allow gnuplot to run directly from the linux console level with high quality graphical output.  This is useful either from a server or laptop where X11 is not running.

Historically gnuplot was able to run and produce graphics from the linux console (i.e. no X11 enviroment) only by using libsvga.  There were many downsides to this, and libsvga is largely dead.  Fortunately a better alternative now exists.  The yaft console terminal is an alternative to the default linux console.  

   https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft

It is distributed under the non-restrictive MIT license.

yaft supports sixel graphics displayed to the linux console via /dev/fb0.
Since gnuplot now fully supports sixel graphics (user command "set term sixel") this means that running gnuplot from the yaft command line at console level gives you nice graphics.

I built and tested yaft using Cauldron (current as of 10 Aug 2018) with no problems.  No special configuration was required to either yaft or gnuplot, although access to /dev/fb0 is restricted to "video" group membership.
Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2018-08-13 22:02:58 CEST 
Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might, if there are no license or other legal issues, want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

You might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Source RPM: (none) => yaft
URL: (none) => https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft
Summary: Request inclusion of yaft (console level terminal) => yaft (yet another framebuffer terminal), supports sixel graphics, thus allowing gnuplot to give high quality graphical output without needing Xorg or Wayland.
CC: (none) => geiger.david68210, mageia, mageia, marja11, rverschelde

Comment 2 sturmvogel 2023-02-10 23:40:21 CET 
Unfortunately this project is dead. The last release is from 2015. 22 unfixed issues. There is no single distribution out there which ships yaft.

Closing as WONTFIX.

Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX
Status: NEW => RESOLVED