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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:44:26 +0100
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Subject: Re: Project plans - Both Gio and Terminal?
From: =?utf-8?q?Vladim=C3=ADr_Magyar?= <vladimir@mgyar.me>
To: "dvn" <mail@dvn.me>, <~ghost08/photon@lists.sr.ht>
References: <20220112195022.qcwaytpkex4rjlec@iyo>
In-Reply-To: <20220112195022.qcwaytpkex4rjlec@iyo>

Hi,

so IMA terminal guy. Everything that can be done in the terminal, rather
then gui, is better. So when I wanted to build a rss reader with
images and no sixel in my favorite terminal (alacritty), I decided, that
I'll do it in the best gui lib I know for go - gio.

Then I found [foot](https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot) and [this branch of ala=
critty](https://github.com/jbenden/alacritty/commit/96ee1939e5abf7044342ff0=
2dc11a88557ba2d7b)
So I've split the photon project to a core lib and the gui so I can make
the terminal+sixel frontend to it.
I wanted to make more changes to the core and doing so would need me to
addapt the photon-gio also and by then I used just the terminal version
(then called photont) so I've just integrated the core lib to photont
and continued developing so. Later I wanted the terminal version to be
the 'main' version of photon, so I renamed photon to photon-gio and
photont to photon.

So the photon-gio isn't abandoned, It's just in "maintenance" mode. I'll
fix issues, if reported, but nothing more. I thought, that this change
wouldn't influence nobody. Sourcehut doesn't have stars like github, no
downloads statistics and there was no discussion in the photon mailing
list (this is the first).

And to the CPU usage: gio is a immediate mode gui. So every frame must
be rendered from the data you want to be on the screen. I don't know if
it is a problem with me or something, but the latest version is greatly
optimized. So on my computer it eats up my CPU to 8% (compared to the
previous 30%).

Vlado