[ANN] Lagrange - A Beautiful Gemini Client

[John Cowan]

I just wanted to say that I tried this client for the first time today on a
Mac, and it is indeed classically beautiful: μηδὲν ἄγαν (nothing in excess)
as Apollo said at Delphi.  I found everything I needed or wanted and
nothing I didn't, or more accurately nothing that I couldn't see someone
else who is aligned with the spirit of Gemini wanting, like dark mode.

Nevertheless, as a visually impaired person (not so much so that I need a
screen reader, however), I would ask for two things:

1) A mode in which the background is white (which you already have) and all
colors except in icons are mapped to black.  Even though your colors are
subtle, black print on white paper, as God and Gutenburg intended, is the
most readable.  In particular, grayscale text blends into the background,
and using less saturated colors in subheadings combined with smaller font
sizes, makes them hard, harder, hardest to interpret.  (Colors in icons are
fine: I don't have to read them, just look at them.)

2) A nice serif font.  Characters with serifs are much easier to recognize
because the letters look more different.  The worst case for sans-serif
fonts is l (lower case L) and I (uppercase I).  Here they are together:
IlIIl.  That looks in a sans-serif font like five tally marks, but in fact
it is I-L-I-I-L with lower case L, as a serif font will show.

There is nothing inherently old-fashioned about serif fonts:  Georgia
(which is web-safe) is a good candidate for lightweight minimalism, and so
are any of those shown at <
https://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/design/21-stunning-serif-fonts-websites>.
Whatever floats your boat, but with serifs!

Without these things I have to magnify the text even more than I normally
do (150%) and get less and less content per screen.  This is a matter of
pure practicality: I'm not asking for the ability to render pages in Comic
Sans <http://www.identifont.com/find?font=comic+sans&q=Go> or in STOP <
http://www.identifont.com/show?374>, a font which combines the virtues of
ugliness with those of illegibility.

A very minor third point:

3) It would be nice if, after opening a new tab, the cursor was in the
address bar.  This is convenient:  Cmd-T immediately followed by typing the
URL, without having to mouse about.


On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 8:56 AM skyjake <skyjake at dengine.net> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Here's a brief update on what's been happening with Lagrange since the
> initial v0.1 release.
>
> I've just released v0.4 today with preliminary audio playback support. You
> can now listen to Ogg Vorbis and WAV files using an inline audio player. It
> works the same way as the image viewer.
>
> => https://skyjake.fi/@jk/105010413773282229  Screenshot of audio player
> UI
>
> I call this preliminary because it still lacks basic features like volume
> control and seeking. The plan is to add more audio codecs as well, although
> that will require adding new (optional) dependencies to the build.
>
> The other notable change in v0.4 is support for Windows HiDPI displays,
> including respecting the Windows UI scaling factor.
>
> In the earlier builds v0.2 and v0.3, the new features were:
>
> * saving files to the downloads folder
> * quotes have an icon for clearer visual distinction
> * macOS touch bar support
> * improved context menus and text selection
> * mailto links
> * style customization: font, line width, color saturation
> * page outline that appears when hovering over the scroll bar (off by
> default)
> * site icon and heading in the left margin (wide windows)
>
> => https://skyjake.fi/@jk/104938360727578010  Screenshot of site icon and
> hover outline
>
> Binaries are available for Windows (7 or later, 64-bit only) and macOS
> 10.13+:
>
> => https://git.skyjake.fi/skyjake/lagrange/releases  Prebuilt binaries,
> source repo
> => gemini://skyjake.fi/lagrange/  Project page
>
> --jaakko
>
>
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