Re: Guix System video review on YouTube

[Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>]

On +2020-04-28 02:32:39 +0200, raingloom wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:11:05 +0200
> Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@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 :)

> 

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Regards,
Bengt Richter