Kitty 0.50 (sw.kovidgoyal.net)

65 pointsby porridgeraisinan hour ago20 comments

anonymous_i 19 minutes ago

I recognized him name from Calibre: https://calibre-ebook.com/about

What a legend.

vconnor 12 minutes ago

When I first used Calibre I thought it was a disorganised mess trying to cram too many features in one app.

Over time I learned to appreciate the vision: it’s not the stereotypical modern streamlined app, it’s the cockpit of a spaceship. It’s AutoCAD for ebooks. I really enjoy that application now, I haven’t even scratched the surface of its featureset.

I heard the author gets very defensive of his design choices: good, I wish we had more opinionated app developers in FOSS.

trvz 8 minutes ago

It's tastelessly designed.

petepete 43 minutes ago

I love Kitty. I've used it since discovering it in about 2019 and it strikes the right balance of things.

It's easy to customise, super fast, light on resources, available in my distro's package manager and while the author might be a bit prickly at times, he does a fantastic job leading the project and keeping things focused.

I'll give the new shaders a try but the animated cursor is probably busy enough for me already.

Systemerror7A69 21 minutes ago

Oh wow, I did not expect not only that many interesting changes, but also that many which seem actually specifically useful to me - very cool to read!

I love kitty, have used it for a long while now and pretty happy, except for that one thing about ssh xterm - but even that is mostly minor.

Really cool to see such active development of an already perfectly capable and working software.

birdsongs 5 minutes ago

I have the same SSH qualms. I still use it because there's not much better for what I need.

isqueiros 43 minutes ago

To someone uninformed, how does this compare to Ghostty?

TheRoque 34 minutes ago

I haven't try Ghostty, but what I like about kitty is that it's performant, easy to customize (often it's just one line to add and you get that new feature you want), I like their defaults for tabs, layouts. It's not overwhelming but not too minimal either. I just find it's a sweet spot. I also somehow like the personality of the maintainer which seem to have a nice vision for the project. My major gripe is that it's not available on windows, but anyways I rarely use microslop products nowadays.

flohofwoe 29 minutes ago

Very similar, about the only difference from user perspective is that Kitty has a slight content 'wobble' on macOS when resizing the window (this typically happens when the content is rendered via an MTKView or CAMetalLayer and its parent view's 'layerContentsPlacement' isn't anchored to one side during window resizing). That would be trivial to fix though.

PS: another difference is installation size, on macOS Kitty is about 246 MB while Ghostty is 67 MB (and it looks like Kitty comes with a glslang shader compiler and python 3.14 frameworks, which together already take up 32 MB).

TL;DR: it feels like Ghostty is paying a bit more attention to platform-specific aspects than Kitty.

Also funny/sad: both call themselves 'cross-platform', but then don't support Windows (only various UNIX variants).

sumedh 18 minutes ago

Ghostty UX feels more polished compared to Kitty. I tried Kitty for a while but just did not like the default UX.

jfsebastian 26 minutes ago

Kitty is my go-to for the Linux desktop. I discovered it in an early stage and really liked it from the beginning. It’s great to see that the project continues to be developed so vigorously.

janalsncm 23 minutes ago

> Restore after logout

Awesome. I built a janky version of this for myself but I’m glad it’s supported natively now.

TheRoque 40 minutes ago

Nice. I love kitty. But somehow I just realized I'm stuck in 0.47 even though I'm on Fedora, it's like 6 months old. Excited to try the automated session restore.

omegaSigma95 43 minutes ago

Tbh the quick access terminal stuff in this release is what I wanted three years ago when I wrote my own wrapper

miroljub 17 minutes ago

It doesn't work on Windows. What are your favorite Windows alternatives?

mellosouls 12 minutes ago

Windows Terminal. I used to use things like Kitty but don't see a need these days.

HasanGilani 44 minutes ago

Looks fun