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So, the Gemini link syntax was finalized:
The one place this affects Germinal is in the generation of directory indexes.
Germinal's directory indexing code has been updated accordingly.
I have also updated the links on my Gemini site.
Unless there are changes coming to the response header line format, this is
probably the last Gemini change that actually affects Germinal. Pretty much
everything else is client-side.
I'm pondering Gemini clients. Right now the most full-featured Gemini client is
AV-98, which is line-oriented, and Asuka, a ncurses-based client is in early
development.
These are both good, but I'd really like to see a client that's not made for the
terminal. I love working in the terminal, and some days I choose to 'live' there
for a break from the GUI world. But I'd also like to see a GUI client that does
nice typography and, for example, opens images itself (in the main window, or in
new windows). I'm afraid I'm not the person to write it, though. I don't really
have any experience writing GUI applications. I'll probably write an Emacs lisp
client at some point, but that's still basically in the TUI space. Still,
keeping it in potential space. I think a GTK app in Racket might be interesting
to do.