the easy selection of links via keycode shortcuts really sold it for me. I use something similar with Firefox's vimium add-on, bit its nice to see something like this already baked in. It shows a good understanding of their core user base
They decided to make GTK4 apps exclusive to the desktop environment for which the app was built for. You could use it outside the intended DE but it will look alien.
They have done pretty much the opposite - they added a proper API of theming instead of having a stylesheet override. GTK didn't really have themes before, so this is quite nice.
> They have done pretty much the opposite - they added a proper API of theming instead of having a stylesheet override.
That's not theming, that's just changing accent colors in the same theme. If I don't like dark background color, I can't change it. If I don't like the light background color, I can't change that either. All I can do is change accent colors.
The entire GTK and GNOME ecosystem is heading towards Android like customization and theming, which is basically non-existent at this point.
GTK4 apps aren't meant to used outside of the platform for which they're built for. If the GTK4 app in question is built using libadwaita, it's meant to use only inside GNOME. If it's built using libgranite, it's meant to used only inside Pantheon (from elementaryOS).
Of course, you could use it in KDE or MATE or anywhere else but it would look completely alien with different themes and, potentially, different fonts and icons. You can't set your own theme without resorting to hacks.
If someone has come across a GTK4 app which isn't restricted to a specific desktop environment, let me know. Meanwhile, I won't use any GTK4 apps in existence.
Kristall is good, but Lagrange is more finished, imho. But the great thing about Gemini is that it is possible to write a fully featured Gemini browser in a weekend, so there are plenty about. Just try writing your own Web browser with anything less than a couple-billion dollars handy. Even Microsoft gave up.
That's nice! But since it's also for Windows, I was surprised not to see binary releases, just the source. Most Windows users won't bother compiling from source.
(In contrast to "up-to-date" browsers, which are definitely not full of exploitable security holes, despite frequent releases to which new code is constantly being added to them in large amounts.)
I'm not in a position to judge the actual security of PaleMoon and for what I know it might be more secure for the reasons you point out.
As for why I won't use it without precautions I really do not want anyone to be able to use "this happened because skinkestek used an old browser, maintained by two persons in their spare time" if something goes south at some point.
That said, I have tested it and for me it wasn't just rose tinted memories, I prefer the UX of PaleMoon far to modern Firefox which I still prefer to Chrome (for both UX and personal reasons.)
This comment was only three days ago, and I’m already in the process of munging my Wordpress exports to make .gmi format text. Gemini is yabba dabba doo awesome.
It's a very old internet protocol that I've not encountered in more than 20 years and even at this time it was more of a curious remnant than something useful. I've never heard of finger and Gemini
Back when logging into a shell server was the standard way to access the Internet, finger provided a way to get information on users on a particular/site. E.g. finger someone@server.school.edu.
Usually you could create dotfiles named .project/.plan in your home directory, and the contents would be displayed for all to see. .project/.plan files were the blogs/tweets of that era. Sometimes I miss those simpler days!
And if you're more partial to terminal browsers, I've written my own. https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora