Kristall – Visual cross-platform browser for gemini, http, https, gopher, finger
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And if you're more partial to terminal browsers, I've written my own. https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora
I wonder if it's possible to make https://oeis.org/ that has a search field, available via gemini?
Both are written for GTK, so they integrate quite good with GNOME.
They have done pretty much the opposite - they added a proper API of theming instead of having a stylesheet override. GTK didn't really have themes before, so this is quite nice.
That's not theming, that's just changing accent colors in the same theme. If I don't like dark background color, I can't change it. If I don't like the light background color, I can't change that either. All I can do is change accent colors.
The entire GTK and GNOME ecosystem is heading towards Android like customization and theming, which is basically non-existent at this point.
What?
GTK1 and GTK2 had zillions of actual themes and engines.
Now, there's just a re-coloring API where I can't change the dark background if I don't like it and that's "real" theming.
Of course, you could use it in KDE or MATE or anywhere else but it would look completely alien with different themes and, potentially, different fonts and icons. You can't set your own theme without resorting to hacks.
If someone has come across a GTK4 app which isn't restricted to a specific desktop environment, let me know. Meanwhile, I won't use any GTK4 apps in existence.
Edit: Found on the project page: https://kristall.random-projects.net/
I might install it in a VM like Palemoon (because security) and try use it as a main non-work browser to see how it fares.
IMO the world badly needs a truly independent browser.
umm, what?
(In contrast to "up-to-date" browsers, which are definitely not full of exploitable security holes, despite frequent releases to which new code is constantly being added to them in large amounts.)
I'm not in a position to judge the actual security of PaleMoon and for what I know it might be more secure for the reasons you point out.
As for why I won't use it without precautions I really do not want anyone to be able to use "this happened because skinkestek used an old browser, maintained by two persons in their spare time" if something goes south at some point.
That said, I have tested it and for me it wasn't just rose tinted memories, I prefer the UX of PaleMoon far to modern Firefox which I still prefer to Chrome (for both UX and personal reasons.)
It doesn't have inline images or anything, but only the text content
I wonder if one can make a Gemini browser for iOS bypassing the Apple rule that its own engine must always be used.
Gofer is Haskell-like language, replaced by Hugs.
I think the Gopher protocol predates both of them. It's kind of like HTTP but without HTML: just basic directory listings and files.
Gemini is actually pretty new, sort of like a re-imagined Gopher.
Back when logging into a shell server was the standard way to access the Internet, finger provided a way to get information on users on a particular/site. E.g. finger someone@server.school.edu.
Usually you could create dotfiles named .project/.plan in your home directory, and the contents would be displayed for all to see. .project/.plan files were the blogs/tweets of that era. Sometimes I miss those simpler days!
https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/gopher-gemini-and-the-smol...