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Cognitive aspects of navigation in gemini space

James Tomasino tomasino at lavabit.com

Thu May 14 19:42:40 BST 2020

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On 5/14/20 6:21 PM, solderpunk wrote:
> it would be nice if a graphical Gemini browser used a different
> foreground and background colour (and perhaps even a different font?)
> for different domains (subdomains)? 

That sounds like a really nice feature that some people would value in aclient that offered it. If, while browsing gemini, I could quickly setthe colors or styling on a domain level it could be neat to visuallyseparate places I go routinely. Some users might value that featureenough to choose a client that offers it. Others wouldn't care.

Another option on the client level would be to hash the domain into acolor code of some sort, dynamically creating variation in thebackgrounds to a reasonable degree (shades of grey? below a certainlumen?). That would give the user an obvious indication if a linkfollowed changed domains. Again, it might be of value to somebody andothers won't care.

We're getting a plethora of clients popping up. Maybe some of these newones want a way to differentiate themselves. I'd suggest that puttingany and all of these levels of control into the client's hands would begreat for gemini long term. The problems come when we want to solvethese things server-side.