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paaloeye 5 hours ago

It just works. — Steve Jobs

Ref: https://arne.me/blog/we-need-more-zero-config-tools

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wpm 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah except when it doesn't. I shouldn't need to reference documentation to change my terminal font.

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paaloeye 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Honestly, iTerm's settings were always a mess in my opinion.

I feel like good tools should be invisible and Ghostty's lack of fully fledged Settings app is a feature, not a bug.

Just open it in Kakoune/NeoVim and change with a speed of thoughts. Never used any third-party Settings apps though.

Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858121

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wpm 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Change with a speed of thought

Yeah, except the default config file doesn't EXIST and there is nothing but the reference docs to tell you what the hell you're supposed to put in there. What am I supposed to do, guess? Is it `font=` or `font-family` or `font-name`? That's fucking terrible. The very existence of a website like this: https://ghostty.zerebos.com proves the failure in my opinion.

Good tools should be invisible. Good tools behave the way I want them to. That's different than the way you want them to behave. Or appear. Good defaults are good. That is absolutely no excuse to abandon good UX for configurability.

I'm happy the defaults work for you. They don't for me.

And don't get me wrong, ghostty is a fine terminal and I don't begrudge it, and I think libghostty is awesome, it's just not the application for me.

	▲	OnlineTux 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What do you mean “there is nothing but the reference docs to tell you what” valid configuration options are? Where would you expect that to be documented otherwise?