Post #365904

Repository is now public. Right now this is just called Swb, or Simple Web Browser. Open to naming suggestions. Swb is being written in Vala using WebKitGtk. I've been daily driving Gnome Web since Mozilla's new CEO decided that Mozilla should be an AI company, but I'm cheap (actually quite poor) and have a crappy laptop with a small, low-resolution screen and I hate that there's no way to reduce the size of the interface. That was the original motivation, anyway. I used DWB back in the day, and Qutebrowser for a number of years until I couldn't stomach the idea of Blink taking over the web. I love a browser with a minimal interface that can be driven from a keyboard, but I don't want to saddle people with Vim style keyboard shortcuts or make the thing unusable for newer users. The idea is to build something usable by people who just fired up their first Linux installation last week, and also for those who live 99% of their time on the command line. But I want those advanced users to have tools like short bookmark aliases (qutebrowser calls them Quickmarks) and easily configurable searchengines where you just prepend a short alias to the search query to tell it where to search. The sort of tool that you can use right away, but that you can grow into using really productively over time. There is a ton left to do to make it what I want it to be. Right now it's sitting at just over 1100 lines of code and is basically just a minimally viable proof of concept. No saved state or settings, no bookmarks (yet) and not all browsing features like back/forward/reload are implemented. I'm putting it out there to hopefully attract contributions, so as such it's GPL3 licensed and has a code of conduct based on the one that the Rust project uses. https://codeberg.org/jeang3nie/swb