Comment by pythops

Comment by pythops 6 hours ago

bluetui author here.

> It made me really happy how a tool so simple makes such a huge difference in terms of how smooth it is to solve a problem,

Happy to hear that :)

> if I have one tiny criticism about bluetui is the annoying fonts

You suggest to get rid of the icons ? what if they can be disabled in the config, will that fix the issue for you ?

> there's plenty of white space You can set the window width from the config file (width = positive integer) if you don't want the TUI to be responsive.

jorvi 31 minutes ago

> You suggest to get rid of the icons ? what if they can be disabled in the config, will that fix the issue for you ?

Yes.

In general, its a good idea to not rely on someone having installed nerdfonts / fonts with glyphs. Or at the very least offer fallback.

You can usually get pretty far by repurposing Unicode symbols.

For example, from Bamum:

  𖦤 Headphone
  𖦥 IEM
  𖤣 Mic
  ꚰ Warning
  𖥉 Bluetooth (had to get a little creative)

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PostOnce 4 hours ago

I think the icons are cool.

Emoji in text is annoying, but this isn't a page of text, it's a UI element, and that can make something clear especially if you're connecting a device whose name is unknown, but you know it's a speaker, or whatever.

So having the option to enable / disable is better than taking away the icons, in my opinion.

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alias_neo 4 hours ago

Absolutely this. Particularly when there might be a few unnamed devices, but you know your devices is a particular device class, you can guesstimate the correct device based on its class, and the icon is extremely useful for this!

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jxdxbx 3 hours ago

Hi bluetui author. I just discovered your app last week, just wanted to say it is great.

I truly like this new generation of command line utils (I have bat, eza, etc aliased to things like cat and ls) and TUIs like yours. TUIs in particular: having grown up with DOS apps, then graduating to using Pine for email on a shell account, they are nostalgic, but also just super fast and practical. And I like having an option in between the command line and config files and a full-blown GUI app (which, on Linux, might look like any old random thing anyway).

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bfkwlfkjf 4 hours ago

> what if they can be disabled in the config, will that fix the issue for you ?

I mean if you're offering, I would love that.

And thank you for releasing under GPL. <3

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pythops 3 hours ago

sure, feel free to open a github issue and I will do my best to implement it asap :)

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