Comment by 🚀 jsreed5

Re: "Do you browse the Geminispace with a GUI, TUI, or CLI..."
In: s/AskGemini

I use all three at various times. My preferred Android client is deedum. On some of my computers I primarily run Kristall, and on others I primarily run Offpunk. I also have a Bash alias for one-off browsing and archiving documents, which gets some use across all of my devices.

🚀 jsreed5

7 hours ago

Poll Results

1. GUI

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2. TUI

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3. CLI

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52 votes were cast.

3 Later Comments ↓

🗡️ The_Jackal · 4 hours ago:

@fab Oh, of course. That's a nice design goal as well, and I don't think the making of GUI clients would hinder that much. I could also imagine navigating being quicker after getting used to keyboard in a terminal more. I personally like using a mouse more though, and if I had a terminal based system would probably want something where I can use a mouse like normal with right clicking and copy and pasting, but also able to just hide the mouse in the corner and use it as normal if I wanted.

🚀 stack · 4 hours ago:

There is no good reason for worse keyboard controls in a GUI, except that GUI users and coders love that dumb mouse...

🗡️ The_Jackal · 4 hours ago:

@stack Not once did I argue for worse keyboard controls in a GUI, though. You should be able to navigate with anything used to control your computer. I feel like having a hotkey to swap from short cuts on the desktop and the task bar on a simplistic, say, cinnamon type desktop and pressing enter to 'click' things could be fine. That would still raise the question of how well you'd navigate other GUI applications however.

Original Post

🌒 s/AskGemini

Do you browse the Geminispace with a GUI, TUI, or CLI client? — CLI = run in terminal with parameters to load a single page and immediately and automatically exit upon output, TUI = run in terminal once to load and navigate many pages in succession

💬 pilot · 32 comments · 5 likes · Dec 11 · 2 days ago · 🗳️