kwi
Modern and fast terminal for KDE Plasma and other desktops
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GITHUB · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 19 upvotes (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal emulators and utilities · 102 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial A terminal UI for KDE can be scaffolded with Qt and existing terminal widgets, but a fast, correct terminal emulator needs careful handling of PTYs, escape sequences, Unicode, and GPU-accelerated rendering. That level of systems work is hard to get right by vibe coding alone.
What it would actually take: The likely stack is C++ with Qt/KDE Frameworks, using a PTY layer and a VT parser, possibly reusing libraries such as QTermWidget or libvterm. The hard parts are VT/xterm compatibility, text shaping and rendering performance, and edge cases like resize, ligatures, and wide characters. Solid C++ and Linux terminal internals knowledge is needed to reach a 'modern and fast' bar.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2400 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1653 of 2401 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 363 days after the earliest competitor.
- redo-of-arch · github · 2026-10-14 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- SmoothEPD · github · 2026-10-25 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- KDEGlance · github · 2026-10-24 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- frametop · github · 2026-09-26 · 112 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- WarpLite · github · 2026-09-23 · 224 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Otty · hn · 2026-06-17 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- kuu · github · 2026-09-18 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- kiri · github · 2026-11-02 · 368 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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