On +2020-04-28 02:32:39 +0200, raingloom wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:11:05 +0200 > Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielma...@web.de> wrote: > > > $ echo "hello" > > hello > > $ guix install emacs > > > > Then while installing emacs, try to reach the hello. It will be tricky > > as every new output line from `guix install emacs` will reset you to > > the bottom of your terminal. That's annoying. > > > > This is not related to the distribution, it's a terminal emulator > default. The behavior is the same in every other distribution I've used. > If they think this is a bad default, they should write on the > terminal emulator's bug tracker. > > But then again, you usually want new (possibly quite important) > messages to catch the user's attention, so I'd say it's a good default. > > Anyways, the option is trivial to change in the settings. You don't > even have to look too hard. > > > So I would propose an interface like: > > $ guix search vim > > | Name | Synopsis | Version | Outputs > > | > > +---------------+--------------------------------+----------+---------+ > > | vim | Text editor based on vi | 8.2.0411 | out > > | | vim-airline | ... [...] > > Please don't, ASCII formatting always messes things up. Use the > terminal for text. If you want a more visual package manager, don't use
To me it looks like he *is* using a terminal to get the above :) (or faking it from some re-purposed console cli sql output snippet?) > a CLI tool. A proper GUI will be more accessible. > By "proper" you mean browser-presented html/javascript ? ;-) > As one example, ASCII formatting makes screen readers a lot harder to > use. I don't think that has to be so :) > -- Regards, Bengt Richter
