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

[Kim Holviala]

Having being a sysadmin for living I absolutely *hate* anything Java-related... but I agree that in this gopher market situation :D it's probably the best bet (SDL/C being the other possibility but with absolutely no native controls).

I can help with converting the Java shi^W app to a proper Mac .app bundle (icon in Dock etc). Macs are happy if you just have a bigg'ish app icon like 128x128, rest of the bundle is just a dir and a couple of metadata files.


- Kim




> On 05 Jan 2016, at 05:17, barana . <barana24 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ill do some testing on debian ppc!..if youre not into making bloatware.
> 
> > Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 19:57:52 -0700
> > From: kevin at veroneau.net <mailto:kevin at veroneau.net>
> > To: gopher4all at fastmail.com <mailto:gopher4all at fastmail.com>; gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org <mailto:gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > Subject: Re: [gopher] New desktop GUI Gopher Client (Java) in development
> > 
> > Great to hear that a modern desktop Gopher client is in development.  Looks great so far.  I can be your Linux gopherpig for testing it out on the Linux desktop.  I use Linux both at home(Debian) and at work(RHEL6).  My work actively uses Java for our Web development, so the JDK is naturally already installed.  I currently use OverbiteFF on my desktop systems to browse and search gopherspace.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> >   Kevin Veroneau
> > 
> >   Original Message  
> > From:gopher4all at fastmail.com <http://fastmail.com/>
> > Sent:January 4, 2016 7:50 PM
> > To:gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org <mailto:project at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > Subject:[gopher] New desktop GUI Gopher Client (Java) in development
> > 
> > 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 <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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