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@lufte I really hate to say it, but, try pkg_install chromium >_< . and try to launch vimini
Apr 15 · 5 months ago
🛰️ lufte [OP] · Apr 15 at 14:09:
@decant bingo! Installing the IBM Plex fonts did the trick. Now I can say that OpenBSD is fully supported, hah. Thanks for the tip!
I love it! it was easy to get it compiled and running on MacOS. the experience is about as good as qutebrowser itself.
oh hang on, I tried to insert a line break there, haha. I'm writing this from Vimini itself! looks like it doesn't yet support multiline inputs? and just one other thing is that typing `:` doesn't get it to open the command prompt for me. everything else works fine, I was easily able to set my colorscheme to catpuccin-mocha too
🛰️ lufte [OP] · Apr 17 at 14:21:
@hedy thank you for your kind words. Getting close to qutebrowser itself is the ultimate goal, so I really appreciate it. You're right about multiline inputs, the GUI toolkit I use has just made them available in its last version so they'll come to Vimini soon. I'm worried about ':' not working though, I may contact you over email (if that's okay with you) to try to see why that is so.
@lufte On startup, Vimini complains about can't find something something sqlite, when scary red text, I cd to ~/.local/share and mkdir vimini and the problem is gone, bookmark saving works now. For some reason the directory isn't created automatically. Might as well be I messed up permission setting. As far as I can tell, Vimini now fully works on OpenBSD . Thank you!
🛰️ lufte [OP] · Apr 18 at 02:41:
You're absolutely right @decant. I was just trying a fresh build of vimini on a mac, to test the behavior explained by hedy, and I noticed that the data direcroty (where the sqlite db is stored) is not created automatically when it prefectly could. The config directory is (if you run the config-write command), so there's no reason to do the same with this one. I'll get to work, thanks!
🛰️ lufte [OP] · Apr 19 at 19:47:
I think I get it now, and I agree, it's all about better defaults to improve usability. I thought you were talking about pre-build config. Yes, to be honest I haven't put much effort into making the first experience pleasant enough. A more comprehensive "quickstart" tutorial should see the first thing a new user sees, and help should be more accessible through commands. I'll come up with something for 0.6. Thanks!
I did release 0.5.1 to address some of the bugs that were mentioned in this thread as well, so thanks everyone for your feedback!
Vimini 0.5.0 — I'm releasing a new version of my browser, with added support for Gopher and other niceties. I've also added build instructions and a short demo video to its README. Up next I'm planning to rewrite the network code so it handles incoming data in a more stream-like fashion, instead of downloading it all and then parse it, which would support long-lived TCP connections (like the one chat.mozz.us uses) or downloads. If you manage to run it on a non-linux system let me know! I haven'...