On: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

[sergiotapia]

You either make it look beautiful in one place, or make it look like ass in three places.

Or, option C: You use Electron, like Slack.

[sanderjd → sergiotapia]

I keep waiting for Slack to realize that they're a big enough company now that they can afford to make native apps that look and work better than the Electron version. I'd much rather have a real native app than a webpage inside some minimal window chrome. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

[shinymark → sanderjd]

The Slack client looks nice but it's incredible how inefficient it is (presumably due to being a web app in an Electron wrapper). I used it recently on a low powered laptop and keystrokes sometimes took 100-300 msec to appear on screen. No other text entry application on that computer had that problem.

[nop_slide → sanderjd]

What would be some of the improvements making slack native? I don't have many problems with the current one other than it is quite large.

[adrusi → nop_slide]

Memory usage, CPU usage, OS integration, security.

[nop_slide → adrusi]

Gotcha, thanks

[baldfat → sergiotapia]

Qt looks very nice to me. But then again my preferred GUI is ncurse in my terminal (urxvt) with tmux in a tiled window manager (i3).

[cturner → sergiotapia]

Another option - you can do everything in a terminal. Not everyone finds minimalism beautiful, but - if you do.

[st3v3r → cturner]

It's still going to be a bit of a problem, as you have the Unix terminals (bash, zsh, fish, among others), and then you have the Windows terminals (cmd.exe and PowerShell).