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[Discussion] Any Clients Outputting Content in Columns?

Jonathan McHugh indieterminacy at libre.brussels

Thu Sep 23 20:18:42 BST 2021

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Hi Nathan,

September 23, 2021 4:29 PM, "Nathan Galt" <mailinglists at ngalt.com> wrote:

On Sep 23, 2021, at 12:11 AM, Jonathan McHugh <indieterminacy at libre.brussels> wrote:
Hello all,
While I recognise this is beyond the spec:
Any rogue clients outputting content in columns (I guess at 40 characters plus spacing)?
It shouldn’t be too difficult to cut the width down to 40 characters on a phone screen, especially
if the font size is bumped up a little bit.
amfora has a user-adjustable normal-text width. I turned mine down by bumping up the left margin.
I don’t know if either really counts as “rogue”, though.
Its a shame that Amfora isnt packaged for Guix yet, should it not happen Ill do it in 2022.
Given I am working on kanban boards it would be nice if somebody has made my life a little easier.
At my end Im temped to approach it in Emacs-Elpher, to see whether I can scoop up the buffer
content in output differing chunks in multiple (readonly?) buffers
if I wanted to make a kanban board in gemini I’d strongly consider having users have a bunch of
separate windows open, one per visible column.

Im used to tiling managers (used Bspwm for years, now on EXWM) but worried that non-tiling window manager users might find that approach crude. Ill take this as reassurance that users are mature enough to use multiple windows and dont require so much spoonfeeding.

Nethertheless, I am intrigued by how a form feed or seperator annotation could be implemented, which proposes column expectation (as discussed be me in a neighbouring thread)=

https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/007210.html
I haven’t had coffee yet, so I might be wildly misinterpreting where you’re going with this.

You were in the right ballpark. I hope you managed a cuppa.

===Jonathan