[9fans] abaco's UI

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

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.

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