Ideas for making notmuch-hello easier to navigate

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+From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>\r
+To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Ideas for making notmuch-hello easier to navigate\r
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+On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:13:01 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:\r
+> That's the feedback I have from a very quick, first look. I'm sure I'll\r
+> have more later.\r
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+In order to give notmuch-hello some good testing, I switched over to\r
+using it exclusively instead of notmuch-folder. The biggest frustration\r
+I'm having is easily picking the desired saved search with only the\r
+keyboard, (I tend to be the kind of person that prefers the keyboard\r
+over any mouse/trackpad/pointer-stick-thingy).\r
+\r
+From=20the initial screen, (with point at the upper-left corner), it takes\r
+several keypresses of TAB before I get to the first saved search. It\r
+might be even more natural to just use C-n to get to the line of\r
+interest, but then I end up in the first column where the saved search\r
+isn't active for RET.\r
+\r
+Here are a few different ideas to simplify things:\r
+\r
+  * Provide a target column from the beginning so that C-n moves point\r
+    to an active location.\r
+\r
+  * Consider a single-column layout for saved searches so that C-n is\r
+    sufficient for selecting one.\r
+\r
+  * Consider moving the name of the saved search to before the count so\r
+    that the initial column is active. Otherwise considering making a\r
+    larger active target, (name and count, maybe more). With a\r
+    single-column layout the whole row could be active.\r
+\r
+  * Consider moving saved searches to above the big search bar. This way\r
+    the become the primary thing to access, which is what I want at\r
+    least. Then recent searches could stay just below the search bar,\r
+    which also makes sense. And for a new user, the big search bar would\r
+    be at the top which gives a good introduction to the system.\r
+\r
+  * Provide keypbindings for "next (and previous) saved search" which\r
+    would move point to the next or previous saved-search name in the\r
+    buffer.\r
+\r
+  * Provide a keypress for easily typing a name of a saved search. I\r
+    think I'd like this to work like i-search, but would only match\r
+    saved-search names, and a single press of RET would both terminate\r
+    the isearch and activate the saved search.\r
+\r
+Any/all of those would help for selecting a single group. Then the other\r
+feature that I would find essential, (and that notmuch-folder had):\r
+\r
+  * Make it so that when quitting from a search and returning to\r
+    notmuch-hello, that point is at the same position it was before, (so\r
+    that "q" followed by "RET" returns the the same search view). This\r
+    would make it so that selecting the next search of interest would be\r
+    much easier than now.\r
+\r
+Just throwing those ideas out in case anyone wants to try implementing\r
+some and experimenting. I'm busy enough merging code now that I don't\r
+have time to write any of the above yet, but I hope to have time to\r
+start coding again soon.\r
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