[gopher] New desktop GUI Gopher Client (Java) in development

[Kevin Veroneau]

Are there any updates for this highly anticipated gopher client?

On Monday, January 04, 2016 03:05:27 PM gopher4all at fastmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new here, this is my first post. Cameron (Floodgap) pointed me to
> here. I had no idea there was a mailing list like this, so I am not up
> to date on Gopher developments by the community.
> 
> I've been obsessed by the Gopher protocol for about a year now and
> wanted to learn developing JavaFX apps in Java, so that was a good
> combination. Therefore, I've stared working on a Gopher GUI client.
> 
> I've posted an early screenshot on Twitter:
> https://twitter.com/vintzend/status/683710791271497728 (yes I should
> have posted it on my gopherspace too, will do soon). Note that I didn't
> spend much time on the layout out yet, I first want the thing to be
> stable.
> 
> Right now the GUI-stuff works (tabs, back/next....) and I am adding
> support for more and more Gopher items (right now menu and text files
> are working), I plan to add as much gopher types as I can. Other
> features that I've planned are good bookmark management, keeping history
> and I'll do my best to make it highly configurable.
> 
> I know Java is not popular on the desktop anymore, but I believe it'll
> be possible to release executables for Windows and Mac (not sure of
> Linux), not really looked into that yet. I plan to release the source on
> GitHub, once I have ironed out some bugs.
> 
> Let me know if you have ideas for new features or want to share your
> opinion.
> 
> Kind regards from The Netherlands,
> Vincent
> 
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