[feature]: Image preview/display

[ic-it]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It would be cool to have a preview or full image display using iTerm/Kitty graphics protocol.

Describe the solution you'd like
There is already a rust solution that knows how to display an image. https://github.com/atanunq/viu
It might be the base

[FedericoBruzzone]

Thank you for this feature request @ic-it.

We were already considering adding the image preview feature using the ratatui-image crate, as you can see here, at the end of the file.

However, due to the fact that Ratatui had a problem displaying Unicode characters when the length was greater than 1, we had put aside this feature. We could not use ratatui-image due to a dependency resolution problem described in the Cargo book. At that time, we were pointing to a commit on a forked Ratatui repository.

We are currently in the process of an alpha release, so this feature and audio support will be included in the beta release. We will certainly consider using your suggested library.

[ralencode]

what about image to ascii converters? they'll definitely work everywhere and are better than nothing

[FedericoBruzzone]

I am slightly caught up in a lot of work at present.
As soon as I can, that's the first thing I'm going to do!

[benjajaja]

@FedericoBruzzone if you need anything from ratatui-image in terms of dependency resolution, I'd love to fix any problems on ratatui-image's part.

[FedericoBruzzone]

@FedericoBruzzone if you need anything from ratatui-image in terms of dependency resolution, I'd love to fix any problems on ratatui-image's part.

Thank you for your helpfulness! I'm a little bit busy at the moment, but as soon as I can I'll get working on this and any problems I'll be glad to help you fix it!

[benjajaja]

For future reference, hopefully the dependency resolution is fixed in ratatui-image since benjajaja/ratatui-image#35.