gophwr v0.5

A graphical gopher browser in racket/gui.

Icon courtesy of tiwesdaeg.

Project goals

My aim is to create a decent gopher client suitable for daily use without resorting to web technologies. No HTML nor CSS under the hood.

Status

This project is still a work in progress, expect occasional breakage. Patches and feedback welcome.

The way it looks as of v0.5.8

Features

• Clickable links in colourful menus
• View images
• Download binary files
• Save currently viewed page
• Back/forward page
• Delegate WWW links to web browser
• TLS option
• Config file

Work in progress

• Adjustable TLS support
• Find in page
• Configurable keyboard shortcuts
• Mouseover/right-click links
• Bookmarks
• Redirection

Up next

• Options menu
• Duplicate (+) types
• Zooming
• Caching
• Tabbed navigation

Usage

How to run

Install Racket, then run:

% racket src/main.rkt [--tls] [address]

(Running % raco make src/main.rkt beforehand can make it launch faster.)

If you don’t want to install Racket, you can fetch a binary release (might be outdated) and run it:

% bin/gophwr [--tls] [address]

To configure it, copy the example config file to your Racket preferences directory. See more on the wiki.

Installation

You can install it directly to your local Racket setup:

% raco pkg install --user git://github.com/erkin/gophwr.git

Alternatively, if you’re using the Nix package manager, simply run % nix-build in the repo and it will build a package for you. (Courtesy of racket2nix.)