Re:TUI Demo – Terminal Interface to Mastodon
by dleslie on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:32PM
(#20880613)
As an ongoing telnet BBS user...
Text selection isn't generally necessary; but in a pinch, one can put a little more effort in to extract and format it.
Font support is excellent if you desire a single font and want it to look one way, all the time, and not be subjected to the whims of the data-provider.
It's true, in a TUI you almost _never_ experience the abhorrent pain of the Window system thinking it knows better than the user, and so your focus remains where you wish it to be, at all times, always.
The best argument in favour of TUIs is that the user is always the primary focus, their current application focus always remains so long as they desire it, the content restriction limits the visual variety, and the limitations coerce the interface to providing only necessary information.
Text selection isn't generally necessary; but in a pinch, one can put a little more effort in to extract and format it.
Font support is excellent if you desire a single font and want it to look one way, all the time, and not be subjected to the whims of the data-provider.
It's true, in a TUI you almost _never_ experience the abhorrent pain of the Window system thinking it knows better than the user, and so your focus remains where you wish it to be, at all times, always.
The best argument in favour of TUIs is that the user is always the primary focus, their current application focus always remains so long as they desire it, the content restriction limits the visual variety, and the limitations coerce the interface to providing only necessary information.