Siggo: A terminal GUI for signal-CLI, written in Go

Re:Siggo: A terminal GUI for signal-CLI, written in Go by stephc_int13 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:15PM (#23556195)

You don't need most of the lines drawn in this TUI. You should use slight differences in background color instead.

Lines can be useful for separation, but in this case you should always favor horizontal over vertical lines.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Siggo: A terminal GUI for signal-CLI, written in Go by nyanpasu64 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:10PM (#23558732)

I dislike modern "flat" user interfaces which try to remove boxes and lines as much as possible. It makes it harder to get oriented in an app, discern hierarchy, and tell different regions apart. (Maybe reducing boxes saves space, as long as you don't replace them with large regions of whitespace.)

I'm glad that https://raw.githubusercontent.com/derricw/siggo/master/media... has boxes and line separators, and hope they don't get removed.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Siggo: A terminal GUI for signal-CLI, written in Go by sumduridisbare on Thursday June 18, 2020 @02:48PM (#23566283)

Hello! I am the creator of this project.

Thanks for the feedback! I'd love to make the look of the GUI more configurable in the future. As of right now, the only things that are configurable are:

* panel labels

* contact colors

I'm using https://github.com/rivo/tview for the UI, and am using (largely) default options for most widgets.

[ Parent | on HN ]