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Hello everyone I've been working on a new console Gemini client - Romulus. It's cross platform, written in C#. Its new, so there may be some rough edges. But already its quite full-featured, particularly from a user interface perspective. Key features include:
Hi Luke,
a very nice program and easy to install on Windows. I have been feared
in the past by our developers for discovering even the weirdest issues
in their programs? I have tested your program - on Windows - against my
server, so here's a list for you: ?
* It does not display *all* characters, defined in Unicode version 13.
- That is very likely nothing you can fix before Micro$oft gets its
act together and fixes the issues with the terminal-window object!
* If there are a lot of headers in the document, the /structure/
display overflows and only the top headers will be displayed:
gemini://h2903872.stratoserver.net/cgi-bin/man2gmi/-k%20str
* Something doesn't work right when you paste a Gemini-URL out of
another browser into the input-box of Romulus, it either reported
that i was unable to connect or crashed:
* The time-out of five seconds prevents some of the CGI programs on my
server from being used with Romulus:
gemini://h2903872.stratoserver.net/cgi-bin/figlet/Romulus - will
sometimes work, when the big, fat Database on that machine isn't
allocating all resources to itself, but usually if fails with a
time-out. It would be nice to be able to configure the timeout.
That's it! - I'm trying to make it run in Linux and will test there.
Best regards from Charleston (WV),
???? Frank/2
On 2021-05-19 18:03, Luke Emmet wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> I've been working on a new console Gemini client - Romulus. It's cross
> platform, written in C#.
>
> Its new, so there may be some rough edges. But already its quite
> full-featured, particularly from a user interface perspective.
>
> Key features include:
>
> * Interactive menus
> * Mouse support, including wheelmouse scrolling for consoles that
> support it
> * Monochrome yet beautiful gemtext rendering, by using whitespace and
> ?? layout to indicate the page elements and structure. A quiet UI to
> save your eyes.
> * Fixes vertical spacing between elements for a global homogenous
> gemtext style
> * Pretty text rendering, including hanging bullets, nice quotations
> and the like
> * Interactive table of contents for each page
> * Fast history navigation, including remembering page offset
> * Bookmark support
>
> For further details, screenshots and downloads, see
>
> gemini://gemini.marmaladefoo.com/romulus/
>
> https://github.com/LukeEmmet/Romulus
>
> For now I have a precompiled binary for windows, but it should compile
> for other platforms. If anyone can assist with how to cross-compile
> the C# for other platforms, please let me know. This is an area I am
> still finding my way in.
>
> https://www.marmaladefoo.com/pages/romulus
>
> If you manage to compile it or try it out, any feedback would be
> appreciated.
>
> ?- Luke
>
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> If anyone can assist with how to cross-compile the
> C# for other platforms, please let me know. This is an area I am still
> finding my way in.
I have no experience. But I would start by searching the Mono docs for
clues.
=>
https://www.mono-project.com/docs/getting-started/application-portability/
Application Portability | Mono
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Mike
Hi Frank Thanks for the feedback. On 20-May-2021 06:13, Frank J?des wrote: > a very nice program and easy to install on Windows. I have been feared > in the past by our developers for discovering even the weirdest issues > in their programs? I have tested your program - on Windows - against my > server, so here's a list for you: ? > > * It does not display *all* characters, defined in Unicode version 13. > - That is very likely nothing you can fix before Micro$oft gets its > act together and fixes the issues with the terminal-window object! Yes Windows Terminal is getting better, but it's not perfect yet. I found this checklist about getting the best display of unicode which helps a bit. Certainly you need to use the new Terminal, not just the default Windows shell. https://akr.am/blog/posts/using-utf-8-in-the-windows-terminal > * If there are a lot of headers in the document, the /structure/ > display overflows and only the top headers will be displayed: > gemini://h2903872.stratoserver.net/cgi-bin/man2gmi/-k%20str Yes, that's a known limitation for now, although most Gemini pages have less than 10-20 headings which works fine. I might add a scrolling list for such situations, but my thinking for now is that generally having them directly in a menu makes for rapid interaction. I think Romulus is the first console application to show the document structure, but I'm happy to be corrected if not. > * Something doesn't work right when you paste a Gemini-URL out of > another browser into the input-box of Romulus, it either reported > that i was unable to connect or crashed: Yes, it expects a full URL, so if the "gemini://" scheme is missing it did not default to it. This is now fixed in an upcoming commit. > * The time-out of five seconds prevents some of the CGI programs on my > server from being used with Romulus: > gemini://h2903872.stratoserver.net/cgi-bin/figlet/Romulus - will > sometimes work, when the big, fat Database on that machine isn't > allocating all resources to itself, but usually if fails with a > time-out. It would be nice to be able to configure the timeout. Its a possible enhancement, certainly the underlying library SmolNetSharp allows this as a parameter on the request itself. I've created some issues on the repo to cover the above items. > That's it! - I'm trying to make it run in Linux and will test there. Thanks - I'd be interested to hear how you get on - Luke
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