Make the terminal very simple and easy to understand.
Rid us of the text-only terminal baggage that we deal with today. Even graphics are encoded as text, sent to the terminal, then decoded and dealt with.
Plan9 had the terminal right. It wasn't really a terminal, it was just a window which had a text prompt by default. It could run (and display!) graphical applications just as easily as textual applications.
If you want a terminal of the future, stop embracing terminals of the past.
The discussion is about the terminal as an interface rather the emulator/renderer specifically, or in this case the windowing system. So in Plan 9 you could've a GUI app overtake the root window but could you have graphics intertwined with text when working at the shell?
Rid us of the text-only terminal baggage that we deal with today. Even graphics are encoded as text, sent to the terminal, then decoded and dealt with.
Plan9 had the terminal right. It wasn't really a terminal, it was just a window which had a text prompt by default. It could run (and display!) graphical applications just as easily as textual applications.
If you want a terminal of the future, stop embracing terminals of the past.