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Response to solderpunk re: Pocket Gopher | |
January 04th, 2018 | |
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solderpunk phlogged [0] about the Android gopher client, Pocket | |
Gopher, available on F-Droid. I downloaded it when I heard about | |
it on Mastodon a few months back and my experiences are similar to | |
those he brings up. Many complaints I have apply to all gopher | |
clients and proxies I've used. | |
Complains about gopher on a phone: | |
- Colors are often black text on white bg. That sucks. (not | |
a problem in Pocket Gopher) | |
- Fonts are often bad, not changable. (Pocket Gopher is pretty, | |
but not customizable) | |
- Text width is a challenge in portrait. Most clients give no | |
option to toggle between auto-wrapping and preformatted, let | |
alone do an interpretive reflow like solderpunk suggests. | |
- Lack of bookmarking / start-page configuration (nicely solved | |
in Pocket Gopher) | |
Pocket Gopher specific complaints: | |
- If I tap the screen and miss a link the font size changes and | |
shrinks slightly. I can repeat this a few times before it | |
settles. Sometimes the screen jumps as a result and I end up | |
tapping the wrong link. | |
It's nice having options in clients but nothing in the Android | |
market has wow'd me yet. There's some active development on the | |
iOS side, so maybe we'll see some of those new clients port over. | |
[0] solderpunk - Pocket Gopher |