Interactive Commandline with Textualize

[TheRook]

Textulize is a library that is far more advanced than ncruses:
https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2022/12/20/a-year-of-building-for-the-terminal/

You can have interactive forms, and buttons that you click on with a mouse - all in the commandline.

In an ideal world someone could have the option to jypter not in a browser, but with Textulize. The advantage here is that you can run it over SSH on a thin client and it will use virtually no resources while still having a friendly user interface.

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[krassowski]

Please see #10283. But, yes it is a neat idea.

[TheRook]

There has been major advancements since the days of ncruses. This library really nails it, I think this library is a really good fit for jupyter.

[davidbrochart]

jpterm uses Textual, but it is very much a work in progress.

[TheRook]

jpterm uses Textual, but it is very much a work in progress.

It would be nice if this was a commandline argument on the mainline so that you can easily run it over SSH without having to grab something new.

[JasonWeill]

I'm not sure that this is going to be within the scope of JupyterLab; to implement a Textualize front-end in lieu of the current HTML front-end would require pretty much all of the UI components and paradigms to be reimplemented in Textualize. As with JupyterLite, jpterm, etc., I think that your proposal is going to be more easily implemented as a project of its own than as an option in JupyterLab.

I'm going to close this as an issue in JupyterLab, but I think this is still a good idea to discuss on our Discourse forum. Thank you for your contribution!