Kovid Goyal on Kitty: Drag and Drop, Pixel Scrolling, and What’s Next
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Episode notes
Mitchell Hashimoto wasn’t able to join this episode for personal reasons, so we made a small pivot.
A lot of people already knew about the original Ghostty vs Kitty livestream, so I wanted to explain that clearly here too. Mitchell couldn’t make it this time, and I completely understand. We’ll see what happens in the future.
That said, this still turned into a really fun conversation with Kovid Goyal, creator of kitty and calibre.
In this episode, we talk about kitty, recent popular features, terminal UX, design choices, performance, workflows, and some of what may be coming next. Kovid also talks about things like pixel scrolling with momentum, drag and drop for kitty UI elements like windows and tabs, and an early look at a possible future drag and drop protocol for terminal programs, which could make things like transferring ...