From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] mothra: proposal
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:21:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86C8667F-F6B5-4941-809F-57B504CBD69B@stanleylieber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <130A2579098A9D00FD34FFDA8EE1ED9C@eigenstate.org>
On March 19, 2020 11:00:23 PM EDT, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
>
>I'll split this into separate patches for separate review/testing,
>and we can decide how to proceed change by change. It's going to
>take me a few days.
>
>>> I'm mostly ok with this, though I'm not a big fan of losing the
>>> "command" vs "body" visual distinction.
>>
>> there are still a couple of lines separating those sections:
>>
>> http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/mothra/img/20200319.png
>>
>> but i'm not opposed to tweaking this. my biggest desire is to
>> minimize the ui's decoration, and emphasize the content.
>
>I'll post a tweaked version, keeps the bluegreen background
>for the url section, and removes the lines between the menu
>items.
>
>>> I don't like theming, but I like the propagation of dark mode
>>> flags even less. If we want this, libdraw needs to signal to
>>> programs which colors they should use, without a '-b' flag.
>>
>> i'm not capable of implementing this. also, by this logic we'd
>> need to change existing behavior of rio ad vt. would we delete
>> the existing flags? i'm not married to -b, but i'm also not
>> advocating full-blown theming. (fwiw, i also don't quite
>> understand the vehement objection to it; standardizing it
>> in one library seems like the right approach.)
>
>I think you underestimate yourself. And, yes, if we have a
>"dark mode", I'd want to remove '-b'.
>
>> caveat:
>>
>> mothra sometimes only knows relative urls (because some web
>> pages only offer relative urls as links), and relies on webfs
>> to figure out the correct request to match whatever it clicks
>> on. this sometimes breaks plumbing, as i implemented it.
>>
>> sl
>
>Mm. we can probably read the 'parsed/url' before plumbing, but
>I'm more interested in being able to plumb non-url text from
>the page.
my plumb rules open urls in a fresh instance of mothra. my most frequent use of the plumb menu item is as a poor man's "open in new window," but i'm definiely interested in being able to plumb arbitrary text selections as well.
sl
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2020-03-20 3:00 ` ori
2020-03-20 3:21 ` Stanley Lieber [this message]
2020-03-20 5:04 ` umbraticus
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2020-04-12 19:16 ` ori
2020-04-12 19:21 ` ori
2020-04-12 19:42 ` Stanley Lieber
2020-04-13 0:43 ` sl
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2020-03-21 11:27 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-03-19 13:24 Stanley Lieber
2020-03-19 22:48 ` ori
2020-03-20 1:27 ` sl
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