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solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Thu May 28 16:29:13 BST 2020
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On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:22:07PM +0100, Luke Emmet wrote:
Any feedback and further thoughts welcome.
Thanks a lot for sharing this! Even as a "terminal junkie" myself I amreally happy to see more "user friendly" clients appear, especially formore mainstream platforms.
I am very excited to see that people are starting to explore thepossibilities for client-driven styling of Geminispace. Slightdifferences in appearance for different domains, and also for linksinto/out of Geminispace are both excellent ideas. I'm curious about theblue and white geomeric icon shown in your screenshot for the "fabric"theme. Is that randomly generated based on the hostname? Is it theresult of a failed favicon request, or is it always there in that theme?
Something no client has done yet, as far as I know, which I think wouldbe great is to make use of the different levels of heading which arepossible in text/gemini to automatically generate a "table of contents"for a long document which could be displayed in a side-panel, and allowimmediate jumping to a particular location. A lot of PDF viewers havesomething like this. This was just as big a motivation for my decisionto include those headers in the spec as that they look nice. My hope isthat with good clients it ends up being extremely easy to makegeminisites which are very quick and easy to navigate or, at the veryleast, requires a concerted effort to make one which is hard tonavigate.
I would also like to see - and this is just my personal preference,which I hope people agree with but which I can't force anybody to share- better support in clients for bookmarking and for handling Atom/RSSfeeds. The mainstream web experience has tended towards people havingtheir browsing directed for them, by things popping up on feeds hostedby (a small number of) other people. There's obviously some value inthis for content discovery and discussion, but I think it would also benice if, along with the technical changes at a protocol level todiscourage tracking, reduce software and hardware requirements, andgenerally remove bloat and clutter, Gemini could also be a vehicle fora "cultural change" toward (among other things!) more self-directed andself-paced reading.
But we'll see how that goes.
Anyway, this looks like a great project with really interesting plans.Please keep us informed!
Cheers,Solderpunk