== 2025-07-17 (Thursday) ==

I was watching a You Tube video by James Tomosino on the Small
Internet [0] and noticed a few shots of a different gopher client
"phetch" and I thought I'd try it.

It's on github [1] as pre-compiled binaries (no Debian packages in
apt). The version 1.2.0 that I downloaded works nicely.

It's themable - simple choices of colour for various parts on the
screen. Config and themes go in 

~/.config/phetch

bookmarks.gph and history.gph also go in ~/.config/phetch



= default theme = 

# Color Scheme
## UI
ui.cursor white bold
ui.number magenta
ui.menu yellow
ui.text white

## Items
item.text cyan
item.menu blue
item.error red
item.search white
item.telnet grey
item.external green
item.download white underline
item.media green underline
item.unsupported whitebg red



= default config =

# Page to load when launched with no URL argument.
start gopher://phetch/1/home
#start gopher://g4slv.cloud/

# Always use TLS mode. (--tls)
tls no

# Connect using local TOR proxy. (--tor)
tor no

# Always start in wide mode.
wide no


# Use emoji indicators for TLS & Tor.
emoji no

# Encoding. Only CP437 and UTF8 are supported.
encoding utf8

# Wrap text at N columns. 0 = off (--wrap)
wrap 0

# How many lines to page up/down by? 0 = full screen
scroll 20

# Path to theme file, if you want to use one
theme ~/.config/phetch/default.theme


= Usability = 

Good...simple keyboard controls

Looks good - It's nice to have some colour to differentiate
different selector types on a gophermap.

I'll use it for a while and see how I like it.

--g4slv
























[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Q35uFCq8Q