From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 5 18:09:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2ED10656C2 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:09:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3237C8FC16 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:09:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so1271651fxm.43 for ; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:09:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=azUpif0Q5B0sNlvfJd2xbdqC4+YEwAeCoIJap9V1N2g=; b=tvg4jgQg/T4CaR0CsZEJgA6dFBigk9XAWtioA7Kr0WpuTTOX5++H8x0QmfCIMgFPlM SJYjI/56XXKcs23R519MFVIX5bvX3vpEd/a1aPi3allPg5bWc9dwmiTA5FAy1yuRbOeK 1wExiMx9F6VS2a5WjuGC0xPc5ddFkt7716Pig= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PXmvZHrEuQ7QfR8RTei7k1yKm078WYt+vSi+brGNpvDewV5hcJmLYQ02xEZazd2h+F Ny9K4mq3/FKOGWzbn2lx9tBROQM4SVkNT0g39KHThOJUJPNQwrdUEbKyXOUQiQ5C41W/ w7HtrPfVZ9/OpDOMx+Yht0Mc5Bpy99a5xY9Kk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.65.65 with SMTP id h1mr3473931bki.18.1244225361185; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:09:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090605174621.GC87456@kokopelli.hydra> References: <4d3f56c90906020812t40c5fcbv178bcd7f702356f@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310906020843n3e7dc96ap28d5d622e844abf1@mail.gmail.com> <20090603004914.73f40a60@gluon.draftnet> <20090605174621.GC87456@kokopelli.hydra> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:09:17 +0000 Message-ID: <3a142e750906051109p3faf486dt754eecbd2bb8e928@mail.gmail.com> From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Open_Source X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:09:23 -0000 On 6/5/09, Chad Perrin 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