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Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by illiarian »

hardex wrote: post #87
illiarian wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> tools that are actually meant to build rich GUIs (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS). These were never meant to build rich UIs. They were meant to build a text page with a few images. That's it. There's a reason why every single UI framework for these tools re-invents the same primitive controls like avatars and tabs.

That ship has sailed 15 years ago. Web is (unfortunately) the most flexible and feature-complete crossplatform GUI framework.

It is, of course, neither.

The most feature-complete and flexible GUI framework is one that is:

- flexible. The web is anything but. You can read, for example, how Figma struggled and how inflexible the web is here: https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...

- feature-complete. Once again, there's a reason all UI projects for this "most feature-complete framework" keep reinventing the most primitive controls. Because the web has none, and creating complex controls is a near-impossibility. Also, if it was feature complete, https://open-ui.org/ wouldn't exist.

If you are actually looking for a flexible feature-complete GUI framework, then it's Qt.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by junon »

imbnwa wrote: post #92
junon wrote: post #6

If you haven't seen WezTerm, you should.

Lua config is game over, got no time for whatever config format somebody chose that I gotta write a script to properly respond to dark mode for

Or, you know, you could look at it. It's a single flat object format with just a few keys. The default is already pretty sane, too. The reason it's Lua is so that you have the option to use features like switching a value based on platform, etc.

I've set my WezTerm config once and have never needed to touch it since. It's been years. There's not a lot there.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by sixothree »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #13
sixothree wrote: post #7

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Oof. That’s some toxic conversation.

What's toxic about it? Negative , sure, but it's not toxic to make a substantiated negative comment.

This whole notion of people suggesting the size of a binary or its memory footprint inherently makes it unappealing or inefficient is just plain wrong. But what's disgusting is lambasting an app without _any_ evidence whatsoever other than some completely useless and arbitrary metric. I see that conversation as wholly unfounded and just plain repulsive.

If you want to criticize someone's hard work, at least bring some supporting evidence.

This whole "my terminal app uses 250 kilobytes of disk space" means absolutely nothing and is just plain rude. By that logic, gedit is a full fledged development environment.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by sixothree »

Y_Y wrote: post #19
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's toxic about it? Negative , sure, but it's not toxic to make a substantiated negative comment.

"Toxic" seems to have become a word you say when you don't like something, but you want to represent that it's inherently bad, rather than merely in your estimation.

Feel free to read my other comment, but by toxic I mean criticizing without any evidence whatsoever other than some preconceived notions about disk usage.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by mickelsen »

benjaminwootton wrote: post #76

Quite a negative comment thread. Isn't the spirit of the site to find what's interesting in a new project rather than say it's already been done and assume the worst motivations of the developer? I for one am glad that people build tools such as terminal apps as free and open source.

Yeah, I use this thing and I'm quite happy with it, it replaced iTerm for me. It strikes the perfect balance in UI for me, not over-customizable with pointless options everywhere, yet not barebones. As for Electron, I've seen much worse offenders especially in the messaging space, this is fine in comparison.
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