<story><title>Lagrange: A desktop GUI client for Gemini</title><url>https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>soapdog</author><text>Whenever Gemini is mentioned here in HN people will ask: &amp;quot;Why not a subset of HTML with HTTP&amp;quot; or some similar &amp;quot;Why not $SOME_OTHER_TECH&amp;quot; question. Which for me is the same as hearing &amp;quot;Why not chocolate cake?&amp;quot; after saying &amp;quot;I like strawberry tarts&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What people don&amp;#x27;t realise is that Gemini is a different thing for each person involved with the ecosystem. Some people are in it because it is easy to implement, something that can&amp;#x27;t be said about the recent specs of HTTP&amp;#x2F;HTML specs. Others enjoy having a spec that is easy to understand and absorb, even if they&amp;#x27;re not developing with it. There are those that like how clients decide how to present the content, and that some clients allow for a ton of customisation thus placing the user in control of the presentation. Each person is enjoying the ecosystem for their own reason, and that doesn&amp;#x27;t need to be a reason that serves as an answer to &amp;quot;why not HTML and HTTP?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Mostly, people do Gemini stuff because they&amp;#x27;re having fun, and that is enough.&lt;p&gt;Lagrange is a great client. There are a gazilion others. Pick one up for a ride, have fun.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lagrange: A desktop GUI client for Gemini</title><url>https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zenojevski</author><text>(This is a bit of a shameless plug, but hopefully it&amp;#x27;ll be interesting to the general discussion about gopher-like protocols and graphical browsers)&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t support Gemini (just yet) but here&amp;#x27;s my take at a modern, fully-featured graphical Gopher client: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;zenoamaro&amp;#x2F;unnamed-gopher-client&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;zenoamaro&amp;#x2F;unnamed-gopher-client&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tend to spend hours browsing Gopherholes and Phlogs, but I tend to lose track of where I am. So I implemented a navigation system that I have yet to see in any other Gopher client (or web, for that matter):&lt;p&gt;- &lt;i&gt;Drill-down Columnar Navigation.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is heavily inspired by Finder&amp;#x27;s own column navigation, so if you like that, you&amp;#x27;ll be at home.&lt;p&gt;In addition, it has other features that every modern browser should have:&lt;p&gt;- A tabbed interface&lt;p&gt;- An omnibar with search capabilities (Using Veronica-2)&lt;p&gt;- Files and folders view&lt;p&gt;- Inline image previews with zooming&lt;p&gt;- Caching&lt;p&gt;I have many more ideas to contribute back to the Gopher ecosystem without losing its essence (see the roadmap), so if you want to contribute, send ideas, share your opinions, or just show support, please let me know! I hope you like it!</text></comment>