[gopher] GopherVR graphics

[N. Theodore Matavka]

Oh, yeah, and the Alt-x shortcuts are a little crazy.  Yes, I know,
I'm a bit critical, but I love this piece of software on the
whole---I'd just like to see it mature a bit.

On 4 February 2011 23:19, N. Theodore Matavka
<n.theodore.matavka.files at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a similar feeling; in fact, I might get started on the
> conversion myself if nobody takes up the challenge.  I'm actually
> wondering, though, if OpenGL experience is strictly necessary.  I
> found that the VR world itself is actually pretty nice.  It's the
> Gopher menu that's kind of ugly.  Exactly how tightly integrated are
> the VR world and textual Gopher client?  If they are only very loosely
> integrated I might be able to either step into the shoes of, or find,
> a GTK+ developer to code the Gopher client, while Doc Kaiser could
> work on the VR world (which is pretty nice, although the mouse control
> could be a little bit quicker).
>
> On 4 February 2011 15:20, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
>>> lynx as my browser, and both of them are command-line apps.  The big
>>> problem is that, although vi and lynx actually mesh pretty well with
>>> the OS X, or (especially) the GNOME/KDE interface, Motif-based apps
>>> stick out like a sore thumb.  What I'm getting at is this: would it be
>>> possible to 'port' the GopherVR graphics to a more modern toolkit,
>>> such as GTK+ or Qt?
>>
>> I'm sure it could be. I'm not a Qt or GTK+ programmer, though, so I'm the
>> wrong one to do it (I'm very comfortable with Motif [greybeard tendency
>> showing] personally). That said, the actual world shouldn't be too hard for
>> anyone who has some experience with OpenGL to replicate in a more current
>> based client.
>>
>>> Another problem, but more easy to fix: I'm sure that everyone has
>>> noticed that browser-based Gopher compatibility has been disappearing.
>>> This makes it a hassle for those of us wanting to download GopherVR
>>> as their first Gopher client, because the only link to the GopherVR
>>> software is an unadorned Gopher link.  Would it be possible to add
>>> another link to the HTTP download page for GopherVR via the
>>> HTTP/Gopher proxy?
>>
>> I'm merging both the webserver and the gopherserver into one big superhost
>> (the POWER6), so I'll do that after the migration.
>>
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