Add asciiart support

[dylanaraps]

Add asciiart support

[dylanaraps]

Sounds like a neat idea.

I've started working on implementing ascii support, here's what I've got so far:

[dylanaraps]

We can also easily implement screenfetch ascii logos.

[aloisdg]

I was thinking ascii art for the color palette (like I do in ascolorii), but implement ascii art as main pitcure level is a great idea too! :)

[aloisdg]

It would be nice for both of our project to be able to scale the ascii art file. A work around would to use a tool to convert ascii art to svg format since svg support vectorization.

[dylanaraps]

I've just pushed the base ascii support to master, you can use it like this:

fetch --ascii "path/to/ascii.txt" --ascii_color "4"

The info text is padded according to the longest line in the ascii file, you can then use --gap and $gap to pad the text more or less.

The only caveat is that the dynamic padding only works on systems where wc has the flag -L. I'm looking into other methods of getting the longest line in a file. Fixed.

Please test it out!

[dylanaraps]

I was thinking ascii art for the color palette (like I do in ascolorii), but implement ascii art as main pitcure level is a great idea too! :)

Ah, I see.

This should be easy to implement too!

It would be nice for both of our project to be able to scale the ascii art file. A work around would to use a tool to convert ascii art to svg format since svg support vectorization.

I'm not going to ship any ascii with fetch, I think it should be up to the user.

[aloisdg]

Please test it out!

Sure I will!

I'm not going to ship any ascii with fetch, I think it should be up to the user.

Sure you are right. You should not cluter the project with this,

[dylanaraps]

I've run into an issue while adding support for printing ascii art similar to the terminal color blocks. We need to insert padding to each line of ascii art so that it's inline with the text but I can't seem to do it without a really slow while read line statement.

Any ideas?

[dylanaraps]

I've decided on shipping distro logos with fetch. The distro logos will work with the distro detection and will be displayed according to detected distro exactly like screenfetch.

Here's what the file structure will probably look like:

• fetch.sh
• ascii
  • distros
    • arch.txt
    • ubuntu.txt
    • etc

[dylanaraps]

Displaying the current distro's ascii art is finished in my local branch, I'm just doing some cleanup before I push it to master. Here are some scrots:

[aloisdg]

Neat ! You nailed it.

[dylanaraps]

I just pushed it to master, see this faq question to enable it.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/fetch#how-do-i-enable-screenfetch-mode

It needs testing very badly. :)

[dylanaraps]

I'm testing Windows, BSD and a few Linux distros. It's confirmed working in:

• Windows
• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• NetBSD
• Arch Linux
• Elementary OS

[dylanaraps]

@mclado, are you able to test ascii support on your OS X system?

Here's how you can test it out:

https://github.com/dylanaraps/fetch#how-do-i-enable-screenfetch-mode

This is the issue page for it, so if you've got any issues or ideas post them below. :)

[ladislavskufca]

Hmm, I am getting this error.
readlink: illegal option -- f
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
Just checking out why but I don't get it.

[dylanaraps]

It seems that readlink on OS X is missing the -f flag(?). I'll have a look at alternatives to readlink or a workaround for OS X.

I'm using readlink to get the path for the distro ascii btw.

[dylanaraps]

I also just realised that we need a standard location to store the distro ascii art.

[ladislavskufca]

Hmm, this looks like the easiest solution instead of other things in just googled.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1055671/how-can-i-get-the-behavior-of-gnus-readlink-f-on-a-mac

[dylanaraps]

Thanks for the link, a modified version of that is in master and the ascii art should work for you now.

[ladislavskufca]

I can confirm, now it works perfectly.

[dylanaraps]

Awesome!

[dylanaraps]

I don't think it's possible to add ascii blocks similar to your script to fetch. I ran into multiple issues when implementing it myself and I couldn't get it to a point where I was happy with it.

You can use your script with fetch very easily. Just add this line to the printinfo function at the top like so:

printinfo () {
    info title
    info underline

    info "CPU" cpu
    info "GPU" gpu
    info "Memory" memory

    /path/to/ascolorii ~/skull.txt
    # etc ...
}

I'm closing this issue as the distro ascii stuff is complete now and I don't have any plans to add ascii block support any time soon.

[aloisdg]

It will do the job. Thank you for your work.