Using Fzf with icat to display images

[sweetbbak]

So I used to do something like this:
fzf-image() { image=$(fd -t f -d 1 | fzf --cycle --preview="kitty +kitten icat --clear --transfer-mode file; \ kitty +kitten icat --place "256x17@15x15" --scale-up --transfer-mode file {}") [ -z "$image" ] || printf $(curl -# "https://0x0.st" -F "file=@${image}")|xsel }
so that I could easily pick an image from a directory and paste it into an online pastebin. I had another function that scraped a fandom website and displayed character thumbnails alongside their names as well. I know this may not be an "intended" functionality but I found it really fun and really useful.

However after a somewhat recent update sometime this past month, it stopped working. Does anybody have any idea why that might be the case? or maybe there is a workaround? If its something that changed with fzf (which it seems the most likely case since its the only changing factor) then maybe I should build fzf from an older commit but idk.

I'm curious if anyone else has used fzf this way or if there is something similar to this that I could try? Nsxiv sort of works but I cant list structured information next to an image so its not really helpful in a lot of situations.

If I wanted to make a FIFO or some kind of socket that would allow Fzf to talk to a program that could display an image how would I go about getting Fzf to consistently stream information to that socket/fifo?