Re: [9front] mothra: proposal

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On March 18, 2020 7:49:16 PM EDT, sl@stanleylieber.com wrote:
>i've been maintaining forks of mothra for years.  i don't anticipate
>making more big changes any time soon, and i have zero time to
>continue applying the changes from 9front to my several forks.
>
>i propose to backport the following changes from my forks to 9front:
>
>	1.) restore original default fonts.
>		a.) our dejavusans is fuzzy as hell, and it sucks.
>			1.) users can easily choose their own fonts
>			and
>			recompile.
>
>	2.) backport my changes to libpanel to remove useless panel
>	borders and fake shadow lines.  stop underlining hyperlinks,
>	and instead make them blue.[0][1]
>		a.) perhaps in a saner manner.
>			1.) currently, lines, borders, bullet points,
>			etc., are defined in all sorts of different
>			places, not even entirely inside of libpanel.
>			i made no attempt to address this.  in rio,
>			we ended up putting all the color definitions
>			into one file, for easy modification.
>
>	3.) implement -b flag for dark mode, white-on-black text.[2]
>		a.) similar to rio -b, and vt -b.
>			1.) users are free to implement any desired
>			schemes beyond default and -b by configuring
>			the included .c files.
>
>caveat: i do not have a lot of faith in my own ability to backport
>these changes cleanly.
>
>volunteers are welcome.
>
>sl
>
>[0] http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/src/mothra.white.tgz
>[1] http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/src/mothra.black.tgz
>[2] http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/mothra/img/20200310.png

forgot:

4.) plumb menu item.

sl