icat kitten: Fix transmission of frame data in direct mode

Sometimes frame data is > 2048 but does not compress smaller, which
broke the if statement checking for first loop.

Fixes #5958

docs/changelog.rst

@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ Detailed list of changes
 - Fix a regression causing the ``edit-in-kitty`` command not working if :file:`kitten` is not added
   to PATH (:iss:`5956`)
 
+- icat kitten: Fix a regression that broke display of animated GIFs over SSH
+  (:iss:`5958`)
+
 0.27.0 [2023-01-31]
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tools/tui/graphics/command.go

@@ -551,6 +551,7 @@ func (self *GraphicsCommand) WriteWithPayloadTo(o io.StringWriter, payload []byt
 		payload = compressed
 	}
 	data := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(payload)
+	is_first := true
 	for len(data) > 0 && err == nil {
 		chunk := data
 		if len(data) > 4096 {
@@ -565,9 +566,10 @@ func (self *GraphicsCommand) WriteWithPayloadTo(o io.StringWriter, payload []byt
 			gc.m = GRT_more_nomore
 		}
 		err = gc.serialize_to(o, chunk)
-		if gc.DataSize() > 0 {
+		if !is_first {
 			gc = GraphicsCommand{}
 		}
+		is_first = false
 	}
 	return
 }