I won't shill for cool-retro-term; you need to actually, willfully take a time machine that gets out in 1970 and doesn't come back...back to when your dinosaur grandpa opened beer cans with an ice pick or their teeth. I'm still fascinaed with the pulsating cathode tube effects. When monitors were 65 lbs...
But another interesting thread. Great responses.
The first, simple, post asks it all:
Does an operating-system maker (Ubu, Solus, etc) need a signature terminal?
Should it?
Since everybody has a preference is there no limit to how big and far you can take the modern emulator? Has it been exhausted?
One unique to a specific DE or brand is an intriguing idea. You could sell it in conjunction with the DE ("the re-designed XFCE desktop, now with the proprietary ShinyRocket terminal") if something new was offered in terms of functionality, of course.
A terminal unique to a DE's identity is interesting, if I'm reading asmar correctly.
