Briefs · Emerging Technologies
Kitty 0.50
Kitty 0.50 is not an update. It is a house move.
The headline features are docked windows and restore after logout: kitty windows can now be pinned to the edge of another window or a tab — status bars, file trees, a shell parked beside your editor — and, with one option set, kitty remembers everything when you log out, restart or shut down, scrollback included. Your terminal has finally learned what every other application knew years ago: when you come back, it should still be there.
There is more: tabs that behave like named workspaces, touchscreens on Wayland, cursor trails that fire particles like a railgun (sorry, productivity), and a protocol that lets programs report whether they are working, finished or stuck.
Conclusion: kitty is not a terminal. It is a desk that tidies itself.
Read the original at Hacker News (front page)
Summary in our own words. The original belongs to its publisher.