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Whenever I click on a link, ferret emits the warning:
(ferret:9074): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
and the adressbar shows gibberish, copy-pasted it is: \Uffffffff or p- or \UffffffffD
I tried on gopher://gopher.quux.org and gopher://tilde.town. The error message in the GTK-interface is: Could not open address.

Currently search services (like Veronica) don't do anything in ferret, because showing the search box is slightly complicated. I'm trying to figure out the best way to either:

• embed a uiEntry into a uiArea, or
• change the way page rendering works so each node is a separate uiControl

The second option is probably better, but comes with its own problems:

• uiArea is currently the only scrollable control, so I'd have to figure out a way to make uiBox scrollable
• uiBox can't change the colour of its own background, so it'd be the system default background colour (not a dealbreaker but kind of annoying)
• uiLabel doesn't support multiline text (though breaking lines up into separate uiLabels will probably work fine for now)

Right now ferret doesn't know what to do with binary or image files; it tries to display them as text, and fails. It should be enough, for now, to kick off a simple async worker that dumps files into the user's Downloads folder or the working directory.

Right now ferret is showing type codes on menus, which is minimally informative but not very readable. I'm gonna replace these with some SVG icons.

I have been trying to use the style.css file to change the font size and/or font family. I have tried the following:

• changing the file ferret-master/share/style.css pre-compilation from 10px to 18px.
• changing the file /usr/local/share/ferret/style.css after compilation and installation from 10px to 18px.
• changing the font-family in both files to serif and monaco.

None of the above has worked so far. Ferret always displays a sans-serif font that is relatively small (apparently matching the GtkTextView { font-family: sans; font-size: 10px; } of the original style.css file.

I'm running Devuan GNU/Linux 4.0 Chimaera (which is based off of Debian 11 Bullseye).

Tried this a while ago but it's not obvious how to make it work correctly in GTK.

All the content in the page gets redrawn every frame, which is a) an artifact of the way areaDraw() gets called by the UI library, and b) hugely inefficient for large files.

The best fix for this would be to cull nodes that fall outside the viewport when drawing, but as of right now libui doesn't provide a way to get the screen dimensions of a uiArea, so it'll need to be extended to make that work.