Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:09:17 +0000 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open_Source Message-ID: <3a142e750906051109p3faf486dt754eecbd2bb8e928@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090605174621.GC87456@kokopelli.hydra> References: <4d3f56c90906020812t40c5fcbv178bcd7f702356f@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310906020843n3e7dc96ap28d5d622e844abf1@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906021757290.2065@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090603004914.73f40a60@gluon.draftnet> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906030848330.49751@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090605174621.GC87456@kokopelli.hydra>
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On 6/5/09, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:49:50AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> but it's at least much more difficult. And - my other rule fits very well >> here. Avoid OVERCOMPLEX programs. > > I tend to agree with this take on things, and I follow a similar > philosophy of software choice. > > Slight tangent, and you may have mentioned it before: What window manager > do you use? > > >> >> Unfortunately there are no well done WWW browsers for unix in the world. >> links -g is an exceptions, but in the same time it's quite limited. >> But have best fonts :) > > The links browser's interface is crap, as is that of every other text > console based browser I've ever encountered. Moving around within a > page and selecting a link are two tasks for which text console based > browsers have not provided an even halfway decent interface. It seems as > though Web browsers provide a rare case of an application type that is > specifically suited primarily for a mouse-driven interface. I use mouse with elinks & vim in console without problems. -- Paul
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