Gnome-terminal with sixel support

I like terminal applications - usually TUI applications are fast and clean, and well readable.  This interface is too simply, and then developers has to much more think about UI, and has not too much possibilities. On second hand sometimes the output of terminal applications are too limited. We run our terminal from GUI (usually), and then some graphic possibilities can be practical - graphs are better in pixel graphics than ascii art.

There is solution - from terminal's dark age there is a SIXEL protocol. Unfortunately only few terminals supports this protocol. But there is great hope - Gnome terminal in develop version supports this protocol now. I can call gnuplot from psql and I can have well looked graphs in psql too.

For more comfort work I define a psql macro (variable):

\set gnuplot '\\g (format=csv) |gnuplot -p -e "set datafile separator \',\'; set key autotitle columnhead; set terminal sixelgd enhanced font \'verdana,9\';" -e'

and a statement

SELECT i, sin(i) FROM generate_series(0, 6.3, 0.05) g(i) :gnuplot "plot '-'with lines ls 3"

generates this image: