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A keyboard based IDE for a keyboard based GUI for PCs. Common PC GUIs are WIMP based (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers). They require the usage of a mouse and ar
by khitchdee 4y ago
A keyboard based IDE for a keyboard based GUI for PCs.
Common PC GUIs are WIMP based (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers).
They require the usage of a mouse and are pretty complicated.
I find the usage of the mouse in a PC GUI "unnatural".
So I set out designing a keyboard-input only based GUI.
It turned out, that wasn't as difficult as I initially thought.
Then I started writing an IDE for designing apps using this new GUI approach.
I call it EngageUI, since it is user activity based.
https://github.com/Rohit-Agarwal-Khitchdee/EngageUI/ https://github.com/Rohit-Agarwal-Khitchdee/EngageUI/
- notananthem 4y agoI feel like if you advertise this to the various "Mechanical Keyboard" communities they'd lose their shit in a positive way. r/mechanicalkeyboard is a main public one
- khitchdee 4y agoThanks. I'll try that.
- xani_ 4y agoWell, Emacs already did it. I kinda hate after moving to IDEA (as IDE it's just better, still prefer Emacs as an editor tho) I had to use mouse more.
- khitchdee 4y agoEmacs is a great editor if you don't want to have to use the mouse and once you get familiar with its command set. What I'm working on is creating a keyboard-input only GUI SDK that enables you to build something like Emacs easily.