Free TUI idea:

The panels never change, only the text. this means that the interface can be the panels themselves and may be drawn only once!

Jun 25 · 6 months ago · 👍 norayr

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heh so yes imagine tmux session with only six terminals always.

you have to arrange what you do in these six boxes. and only use text in them.

that can be an interesting self imposed limitation.

classical oberon os interface has two panes: narrower on the right and wider on the left. one on the right by default has two wiers: Oberon.Log is above. viewer underneath has some commands you want to click and run. it already has those so that you don't need to type them each time. you can of course edit the text and add your commands or call existing commands other way.

usually viewers you open (by clicking the commands) go to the left, wider pane. you open one text, the viewer allocates whole pane. one viewer more will allocate space on the left pane and cover part of the existing viewer. you can drag a viewer up or down or swith two viewer places.

interesting distinction is: though it is a tui, and every command is text, graphical mode of video card is used. so a viewer can contain images too!

in most linux distcos when the os is booting and then if you configure it to not run x, login prompt you see is in framebuffer, the video card is not in text mode but graphics mode. still you only can use text, if manual page contains graphics then ascii art.