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| From | Stone Fox <stone@unix.dog> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.infosystems.gopher |
| Subject | Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. |
| Date | 2025-03-02 21:34 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <slrnvs9jl4.46q.stone@io.local> (permalink) |
| References | <vpl3rj$24spt$1@dont-email.me> <vpru4s$3iqou$1@dont-email.me> <vpvqp1$ce4a$1@dont-email.me> |
On 2025-03-01, IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > Lawrence Woodman <lorrywoodman@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It would be worth submitting a patch to alter the client's display so that >> it only takes 11 characters on the left hand side and makes the correct >> calculation. >> >> As to whether you should reduce your menu titles to 67 characters is an >> interesting question and really points to how Gopher use has changed. >> When I used it in the 90s it was mainly used to download files and >> although I don't remember seeing this truncation I don't think it would >> really have been that much of an issue as I don't expect many lines were >> formatted in that way. The formatting makes sense on your site and looks >> nice - it is curious how the 'i' itemtype isn't truncated in the same way >> by the client. >> >> Perhaps submit a patch and see if it gets merged in. Then wait until the >> major distributions have updated their packages and revert to 69 >> characters. >> >> Best wishes >> >> >> Lorry >> > > I'm not much of a C programmer and have very little experience using > ncurses, but I wrote a patch today. It works for me, but YMMV: > gopher://gopher.icu/0/files/0001-Removed-selected-item-indicator-from-left-margin-rep.patch > > It can be applied to the latest source tree from here: > https://github.com/jgoerzen/gopher.git > > I also wrote a brief phlog post about it for anyone who wants more info: > gopher://gopher.icu/0/phlog/Computing/UMN-gopher-revisited.md > > Here is a screenshot of it with the changes: > gopher://gopher.icu/I/files/gopher-menu2.png > > If people feel that this is an improvement, then I may submit the patch. > Any fixes or feedback gratefully received. > Dots only appearing at the end of line when it doesn't fit feels natural, so I'd say its an improvement.
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UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-02-25 18:57 +0000
Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Stone Fox <stone@unix.dog> - 2025-02-26 21:29 +0000
Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Lawrence Woodman <lorrywoodman@gmail.com> - 2025-02-28 09:03 +0000
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Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Stone Fox <stone@unix.dog> - 2025-03-02 21:34 +0000
Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-03 23:23 +0000
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