Subj : Re: New terminal program
To   : boraxman
From : Omnibrain
Date : Sat Dec 10 2022 05:57:14


On Sunday, December 11th boraxman was heard saying...

 Bo> I'll keep trying it out.  I did get a little confused with the icons at 
 Bo> the top when connected.  There were no tooltips or text to say what they 
 Bo> were.  Personally, I prefer text menus over trying to figure out what the 
 Bo> icon means.

I can add tooltips. Icons have the benefit of beeing easier to recognize. Once I get a crate for i18n I'll may switch to text.


boraxman around Sunday, December 11th...
 Bo> Also, I'm having trouble connecting to minds eye, I'll troubleshoot 
 Bo> further and let you know.  It's not Minds Eye BBS as I can connect with 
 Bo> Syncterm.

oops... I don't add :23 anymore - I suspect that's missing in your URL. Add that and it should work. I'll fix that.


boraxman around Sunday, December 11th...
 Bo> The choice if rust was an interesting choice.  The source tree after 
 Bo> compilation was 1.6GB!!! That is not including files in the ~/.cargo 
 Bo> directory that were also added (its 550MB).  The binary itself after 
 Bo> stripping was 29MB, which is OK.

Rust binaries are not well known for beeing small. But for beeing secure and fast. The release version on my system is ~11MB fyi.

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