Re: Using KNode 0.7.2, Wondering What Else is Out There

__/ [ Blinky the Shark ] on Thursday 30 March 2006 23:13 \__

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

The command line scares me due to usability matters. I find it hard to be-
lieve that effective interaction can be achieved without pointing devices
and 'modifiability'. To me, CLI-based readers remain off bounds. The only

You're assuming a connection that's just not there, Roy. There's nothing
about CLI-based readers that makes them not modifiable. I doubt that you
could find any readers more modifiable than slrn and Gnus and probably tin.
You can make extremely modifiable text-based clients; if one isn't, then
that's simply a design choice, not a limitation of CLI.

What crops to mind are:

* Grip on 'motion granularity', e.g. mouse scrolling, which PageUp and PageDn
cannot achieve quite so well.

* Highlighting of text that exceeds a screen-full.

* Breakdown into multiple windows, possibly assigning each to a separate
virtual desktop

* Among more...

You will find it rather hard to convince me otherwise.

With kind regards,

Roy

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