[9fans] abaco's UI

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

great!

on a related note, it's been mentioned that adding graphics to acme
isn't too hard. has anybody done this? i haven't even taken a look.
my todo list grows at twice the rate as the done list. ;-)

erik

"Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com> writes

| 
| Hi,
| 
| I'm planning a major rewrite of abaco, to fix some bugs and change the
| UI.
| 
| This is what I have in mind:
| 
| Two bars on the top the first one with commands(Snarf, Download, Exit
| and, maybe in a not so distant future, Look), and the second with the
| current url, their would be frame(2)s, so you can edit them like in
| acme.  A third bar would be at the bottom showing the url under the
| mouse pointer.
| 
| Also would have scrollbars, because they are needed to render framed
| pages.  Mouse's button 1 would open the url in the same window, 2
| would drag the page and 3 would plumb the link.
| 
| Some of this changes were sujested by Kenji Okamoto and by Russ Cox.
| 
| So, what do you think?
| 
| Federico G.Benavento
| 
| PS: /n/sources/contrib/fgb/abaco_tables.tgz, is the current
| state of abaco, notice that the rendering process is very, very slow and
| this will be fixed in the rewrite.