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Amazing engineering. The UI is 1999 - but that shouldn’t distract you from the engineering inside. That said, all the pieces are there to add a modern web UI w

Amazing engineering. The UI is 1999 - but that shouldn’t distract you from the engineering inside. That said, all the pieces are there to add a modern web UI with very little effort.

yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago
> That said, all the pieces are there to add a modern web UI with very little effort. Any idea how hard to just inject some css?
- gecko 9y ago
  It’s extremely easy; there’s an entire concept of themes, and it’s trivial to switch amongst them. Somewhere I’ve got a GitHub-circa-2012 theme for it just to mess with people.
  - oso2k 9y ago
    I’d be interested in seeing that.
    - petre 9y ago
      http://fossil.include-once.org/fossil-skins/index http://fossil.include-once.org/fossil-skins/index
      - xwattt 9y ago
        Please, never share this link again! My eyes...
      - gecko 9y ago
        Hah, yep, that looks exactly like it. I forgot how horrid it looked.
udba 9y ago
The UI being 1999 is a positive. The website has nothing it doesn't need. There's a Dieter Rams quote on this topic. As an example, switching between folders in the source tree feels faster than it does using Explorer. This is what the web should be.
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