[gopher] GopherVR graphics

[N. Theodore Matavka]

I had a similar feeling; in fact, I might get started on the
conversion myself if nobody takes up the challenge.  I'm actually
wondering, though, if OpenGL experience is strictly necessary.  I
found that the VR world itself is actually pretty nice.  It's the
Gopher menu that's kind of ugly.  Exactly how tightly integrated are
the VR world and textual Gopher client?  If they are only very loosely
integrated I might be able to either step into the shoes of, or find,
a GTK+ developer to code the Gopher client, while Doc Kaiser could
work on the VR world (which is pretty nice, although the mouse control
could be a little bit quicker).

On 4 February 2011 15:20, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
>> lynx as my browser, and both of them are command-line apps.  The big
>> problem is that, although vi and lynx actually mesh pretty well with
>> the OS X, or (especially) the GNOME/KDE interface, Motif-based apps
>> stick out like a sore thumb.  What I'm getting at is this: would it be
>> possible to 'port' the GopherVR graphics to a more modern toolkit,
>> such as GTK+ or Qt?
>
> I'm sure it could be. I'm not a Qt or GTK+ programmer, though, so I'm the
> wrong one to do it (I'm very comfortable with Motif [greybeard tendency
> showing] personally). That said, the actual world shouldn't be too hard for
> anyone who has some experience with OpenGL to replicate in a more current
> based client.
>
>> Another problem, but more easy to fix: I'm sure that everyone has
>> noticed that browser-based Gopher compatibility has been disappearing.
>> This makes it a hassle for those of us wanting to download GopherVR
>> as their first Gopher client, because the only link to the GopherVR
>> software is an unadorned Gopher link.  Would it be possible to add
>> another link to the HTTP download page for GopherVR via the
>> HTTP/Gopher proxy?
>
> I'm merging both the webserver and the gopherserver into one big superhost
> (the POWER6), so I'll do that after the migration.
>
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