By continue e-ink theme, what about browsers for Gemini protocol?

I wonder if nobody wrote yet

=> Posted in: s/Geminispace | 👻 ps

2024-12-19 · 6 weeks ago

8 Comments ↓

=> 👻 darkghost · Dec 19 at 12:29:

This feels pretty achievable with off-the-shelf e-Ink displays available for the hobby boards like raspberry pi. Might be able to run excellent terminal software virtually unmodified if you can get a character display going on it.

=> 🎵 jmcs · Dec 19 at 13:53:

in some of the "Gemini software" lists there are, I've seen that there is a plugin for KOreader that does this.

I've only tried KOreader in an Android phone, and that plugin explicitly doesn't work on Android, so I'm not sure how it works. I'm gonna try and find a link

=> 🚀 nimalo_ · Dec 19 at 21:19:

I tried to use the Gemini plugin for Koreader on a Kobo e-reader : it works great!

=> 🚀 mbays · Dec 19 at 23:59:

Here's the link to koreader plugin:

=> — gemini.koplugin

It would be great if someone could try to run it on android and tell me what (if anything) goes wrong; one person did try and told me it didn't work for them, but it wasn't clear why not.

=> 💀 requiem · Dec 20 at 00:17:

It’s on my todo list, send hardware

=> 🎵 jmcs · Dec 20 at 09:07:

@mbays : yep, that's the link I couldn't find. I remember the "tested as not working" sentence.

I'm at the airport waiting to go on some days of holidays, but I'll bookmark this thread to try it if I have some down time.

cheers!

=> 🎵 jmcs · Dec 23 at 20:02:

@mbays , I finally tried it, and the menu entry appears, but tapping it only brings up a centered popup that says "failed to list history directory". Not sure if this helps much...

=> 🚀 mbays · Dec 24 at 16:45:

@jmcs aha, thanks. This seems to mean it's failed to create/list a directory in /tmp/. Does /tmp/ not exist on android? If you'd like to help out more, could you try finding some suitable temp paths to set history_dir and queue_dir to in client.lua and see if you can get it working?