🤔 🤔 🤔 Thought: a fork of Chromium purely for Gemini with everything unnecessary stripped out
1 year ago
You're joking, right? Why would anyone bring the fox inside the hen house? · 1 year ago
(sending this with Lagrange and it's really nice btw.) · 1 year ago
@skyjake
I would imagine making a Gemini browser from scratch on top of, say, Qt or GTK is much simpler than taking a monster codebase like Chromium and trying to trim it down.
Definitely! But this is mostly a thought experiment. If something like Chrome existed for Gemini, it may improve its adoption. · 1 year ago
@skyjake I am totally happy with path and the pace of Lagrange! I really love it! 🥰 · 1 year ago
@gnuserland
Maybe in the future @skyjake will add some plugins functionality, who knows?
If there is a strong use case for such plugins, why not. But we should not just replicate everything from the web world. Every expansion of the feature set needs to fulfill some real need, and we should be mindful of the general principles behind Gemini.
Less is more. ☺️ · 1 year ago
@anthyllis To me it sounds like you want a Gemini browser built on top of a full-featured UI framework. Lagrange is 100% custom UI for portability. I'm working on relaxing the limitations and fixing shortcomings as needed.
I would imagine making a Gemini browser from scratch on top of, say, Qt or GTK is much simpler than taking a monster codebase like Chromium and trying to trim it down. · 1 year ago
go for it. if you think you want to use it and it's a cool project for you, awesome. I don't think it'll make gemini more popular or accessible, just because there's a WebKit browser 😉 but I guess if you're having fun, that's all it takes · 1 year ago
@anthillys besides the fact that I don't use Chrome, I think that Lagrange is one of the thing that makes Gemini magic; furthermore is a project made by one awesome dude, I mean just ONE!
By the way I understand that habits are hard to change but speaking about browser I won't trade off Firefox for Lagrange. Maybe in the future @skyjake will add some plugins functionality, who knows? 🤷♂️ · 1 year ago
@gnuserland Lagrange is the nicest but I miss Chrome's window/tab management, along with other things like color unicode (I'm using Linux), bookmark manager, and I'd like to add a better text input UI that better supports multiline.
Guess I could mess around with Lagrange's source... · 1 year ago
Lagrange isn't enough... 🤔 · 1 year ago
@lykso I don't disagree but I doubt Google would ever approve support for gemini://. The idea would be to make the fork as a proof-of-concept, then when Gemini gets popular ask that those contributions be merged back upstream.
What I find cool about the idea is that I don't really need anyone's permission, just DL Chromium source and go. Trying to get gemini:// support accepted in Chromium itself seems like an uphill battle to me. · 1 year ago
From an implementation standpoint, it'd probably be easier to just add Gemini support to Chromium rather than add support and also strip out everything else. · 1 year ago
🤔 Would it be Gemium or Geminium? 🤔 · 1 year ago