On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 01:33:34AM +0200, John Colvin wrote: > On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 19:41:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:57:35PM +0200, pjmp wrote: [...] > >>Programming like the 70's, yo! :) > >[...] > > > >LOL... to be honest, my PC "desktop" is more like a glorified > >terminal shell than anything else, in spite of the fact that I'm > >running under X11. My window manager is ratpoison, which is > >completely keyboard-based (hence the name), maximizes all windows by > >default (no tiling / overlapping), and has no window decorations. I > >don't even use the mouse except when using the browser or selecting > >text for cut/paste. (And if I had my way, I'd write a keyboard-only > >graphical browser that didn't depend on the mouse. I'd use Elinks > >instead, except that viewing images in a text terminal is rather a > >hassle, and there *is* a place for graphics when you need to present > >non-textual information -- I just don't think it's necessary when I'm > >dealing mostly with text anyway.) [...] > I think you might enjoy https://github.com/conformal/xombrero/ > > snapshots here: https://opensource.conformal.com/snapshots/xombrero/ > although they're a month or so old and I had to edit the URL to get > there... They clearly don't want any noobs haha > > I just built from source and it works very nicely, very minimalist.
Interesting, I'll have to take a look at this sometime when I have some free time. Thanks! In any case, I hope the keyboard interface isn't just something tacked on, as it's not as simple as it may look to design a keyboard interface that's efficient on a webpage, where you need to balance between navigating logical structure to find links, and providing visual navigation keys (ala Opera <=12). This is one aspect where I find Elinks lacking -- in a multicolumn layout the keys for navigating links leave a lot to be desired. T -- What doesn't kill me makes me stranger.
