Sortie de Liquidprompt (version préliminaire 2.3.0-rc.1)
https://github.com/liquidprompt/liquidprompt/releases/tag/v2.3.0-rc.1
Avec des nouvelles fonctionnalités très cool, parmi lesquelles :
– Un début de support de gitstatusd (peut accélèrer le prompt dans certains cas).
– Le support de shpool (une alternative à tmux que vous devriez regarder de près).
– Un raccourcisseur de path encore plus puissant.
Je vous ai fait un petit thème pour liquidprompt qui permet de comprendre rapidement ce que veut dire chaque section : https://github.com/nojhan/lp-explain (si vous cliquez sur les noms soulignés, vous atterrissez directement sur la documentation de la section).
On va peut-être le distribuer avec le thème par défaut, à terme.
The video of my talk about the #design of the DotMatrix theme of #liquidprompt is now available online: https://video.fosdem.org/2024/aw1126/fosdem-2024-2897-liquid-prompt-yes-we-can-drastically-rethink-the-design-of-a-shell-prompt.av1.webm
I am thinking of renaming the "DotMatrix" #liquidprompt theme to "Jolly".
This would allow to have a nice logo in the form of the Liquid Prompt's one with an additional Jolly Roger flag. This would also better fit the recommended use of "chevrons" over the "dots" variant. Also, note that the historical Jolly Roger flag was French and showed an hourglass (looking like two chevron characters!).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pirate_Flag_of_Emanuel_Wynne.svg
At #fosdem2024 , Jarek Potiuk made¹ an interesting point about why the #AirFlow pipeline manager uses a semi-declarative approach: semantic scalability. When defining complex pipelines, you often end up generating the declaration with a script, which essentially discards the benefit of the approach.
What's fun is that it is the same reasoning I used in my article about #liquidprompt's design², advocating for its procedural theming approach.
¹ https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1652--new-workflow-orchestrator-in-town-apache-airflow-2-x-/
² https://github.com/liquidprompt/liquidprompt/wiki/Why#declaration-against-innovation
#fosdem #opensourcedesign #design #prompts
Command line UX https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2897-liquid-prompt-yes-we-can-drastically-rethink-the-design-of-a-shell-prompt/. #liquidprompt
The shell is quite an old piece of software. Old in a good way: it has been tested and upgraded to match a level of quality that allows for efficient work. But if you use the command line, you would most certainly benefit from using a good prompt system instead of the default one, because it will help you make sense of the state of your workflow. Among modern prompt systems, Liquid Prompt is the older one, surely the one with the best feature set, and probably the one having thought the most of about its design. This presentation will introduce the why and how of the "Dotmatrix" theme for Liquid Prompt, which drastically rethink how information is displayed to the user. It will discuss the impact on UX of accessibility, the ANSI color space, information significance and text-oriented visual grammar(s).
nojhan, Cassandre de l’analyse systémique
nojhan, à gauche de Devadata
Ash_Crow
