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jesseduffield / lazygit

simple terminal UI for git commands
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New interface using Charm.sh libraries #2705

Open svallory opened 1 year ago

svallory commented 1 year ago

Topic How hard would it be to redo the UI using charm.sh libraries?

NOTE: I have no affiliation with them

This is soft-serve a git server built with it:

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It is an SSH App made with Wish

Here are some more images for inspiration:

Bubbles

Bubbles is a library of TUI components for Bubble Tea 🫧

Progress

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Viewport

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List

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TextArea

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Table

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Lipgloss

Style definitions for nice terminal layouts 👄

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Your thoughts I think this would probably require a task force that I'm happy to be a part of

jesseduffield commented 1 year ago

I'm interested in charm. I've considered both switching to tview and charm, but I haven't spent any proper time evaluating either of them.

tview uses tcell as an underlying library which is also the case for our existing rendering library gocui. So there may not be as much work moving to tview than moving to charm. k9s is an application I've used which uses tview and it seems to be a good fit there.

Now, as for charm: I'm a huge fan of the design, but, I've clicked through all the existing projects using it and the only one I found that actually seemed to be more than just a POC was https://github.com/dlvhdr/gh-dash, and even that has little functionality. So it's lacking in good exemplar projects that I can learn from.

I'll also note that charm's design looks great, but in Lazygit we really need to display a whole lot of information at once which requires a compact look. I don't know how easy it is to roll your own widgets in charm but it would be a necessity.

Also, it may be that sticking with gocui is the easiest option, simply because the library is fairly straightforward and it's simple to make changes to the fork. But I won't lie: it is a maintenance burden to worry about a bunch of low-level view-layer stuff that is probably handled perfectly in some other library.

svallory commented 1 year ago

Hey @jesseduffield I just noticed this was still open. I think only you can decide if the effort is worth it or not. I have no idea how much work the migration to a different UI lib would be.

As for customization, check out charm.sh. They have several packages that work together to allow you progressive customization.

First, there's Bubble Tea which is the TUI framework (I guess it's equivalent to gocui)

These are the [libraries used in/with Bubble Tea]:(https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea?tab=readme-ov-file#libraries-we-use-with-bubble-tea)

There are a bunch of component examples in Bubbles and style examples in Lip Gloss. And other libraries like Teacup - bubble components.

There a list of Bubble Tea programs in production. Here are some I find nice and kinda complex

The most data-dense app I found there was SlurmCommander

I'm not saying all this to try to convince you. I'm just trying to make it easier for you to have all the information you need. I already love lazygit, so that's the least I could do. You can close this issue, if you want to.

But before that, just a question: is it possible to customize lazygit's appearance?

arunoruto commented 5 months ago

gh-dash is a bit similar to lazygit and could give some inspiration on what is possible with charms libs!