[ANN] Lagrange - A Beautiful Gemini Client

[Peter Deal]

Hi jaakko,

It is a beautiful client - congratulations! I especially like how you use a different colour scheme for each domain, and make it clear in the links where you’re going. The only issue I had was it hangs when I try to navigate to gus.guru (I’m on a Mac, if that helps).

Peter

> On Sep 13, 2020, at 5:55 PM, skyjake <skyjake at dengine.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> This is my first post to the mailing list, so greetings everyone! I've been following Gemini for a couple of months now and really like the thinking behind it. The community has done lots of impressive work on an elegant, small foundation.
> 
> I would like to introduce you to a new desktop GUI client I've been writing. It is called "Lagrange", and me being a visual/gamedev kind of guy one of the main goals is to make it an aesthetically pleasing app. At the moment, I have binaries available for Windows and macOS, and a source tarball for compiling on Linux.
> 
> Short description and build instructions:
> 
>    gemini://skyjake.fi/lagrange/
> 
> Source code and releases:
> 
>    https://git.skyjake.fi/skyjake/lagrange
> 
> In the spirit of Gemini, the guiding principle has been to trim things down to the bare bones. To keep the app as portable and small as possible, it's written in C and doesn't depend on existing UI frameworks. Instead, SDL2 is used for low-level graphics/input and the rest is built on top of that. TLS is provided by OpenSSL.
> 
> Feature highlights:
> 
> * Beautiful typography using Unicode fonts
> * Autogenerated page style and Unicode icon for each Gemini domain
> * Smart suggestions when typing the URL — search bookmarks, history, identities
> * Sidebar for page outline, managing bookmarks and identities, and viewing history
> * Multiple tabs
> * Identity management — create and use TLS client certificates
> 
> This is version 0.1 so it is not yet feature complete, but the commonly needed stuff should be working. Give it a spin if interested, and let me know if you have any comments or improvement ideas.
> 
> --jaakko