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> Tiling WMs naturally favors TUI apps More like: "Tiling window managers only work well with resizable TUI apps" - there's still far too many text-mode progra
by DaiPlusPlus 4y ago
> Tiling WMs naturally favors TUI apps
More like: "Tiling window managers only work well with resizable TUI apps" - there's still far too many text-mode programs that assume fixed-size console buffer dimensions (think: software still using ancient versions of ncurses) - also assuming that your chosen terminal emulator is capable of dynamically resizing (and re-flowing) normal stdout text.
- mhd 4y agoI don't know what definition of TUI we're using, but if we're talking about ncurses style whole-terminal-window GUI, there's no inherent advantage. Responsiveness being limited by character width actually sets harder limits for "TUI"s. It does favor the kind of text-centered UI done by Oberon-1 and imitated by Plan 9's ACME, where there's little to no use of x-y addressing and text just flows.
- ducktective 4y agoThe most widely used GUIs (web apps) are already resize-friendly (like Bootstrap or flex box).
- DaiPlusPlus 4y agoThose aren’t TUIs unless they somehow work in Lynx.