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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: more considerations in UI/UX...
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:05:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201215120544.GA8927@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201215114722.27400-1-e@80x24.org>

some rambling, haven't been able to sleep well all year :<

* latency - startup time hurts, especially in Perl.
  There's also DB opens and disk seeks regardless of
  language.  libgit2 has some built-in caching so a
  persistent daemon may help, here.

* shortcuts/names; for two handed-users on QWERTY, 'lei'
  can be typed with alternate hands with 'l' as a home key
  and the 'e' and 'i' being close to home keys.

  'query' is hard-to-type and will have 'q' as a builtin alias
  (matching the 'q=' query parameter of our WWW UI),
  'show' may have 's', matching /$INBOX/$OID/s/ (solver) URLs

  ... or, can 'q' and 's' be the command w/o long form.
  Neither 'show' nor 'query' are search-engine friendly,
  so "lei q" and "lei s" may be better.

* consistency/familiarity - steal ideas from other software
  built-in help, auto-pager/color,
  `q=' is stolen from web search engines,
  search term prefixes (f:, t:, ...) stolen from mairix

  Stuff I don't know but know other users use: Emacs / Gnus

  notmuch - I've only read the code since Maildir can't scale

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-15 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-15 11:47 [PATCH/RFC 0/7] lei - Local Email Interface skeleton Eric Wong
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [PATCH 1/7] daemon: support --daemonize without Net::Server::Daemonize Eric Wong
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [PATCH 2/7] daemon: simplify fork() failure checks Eric Wong
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [RFC 3/7] lei: FD-passing and IPC basics Eric Wong
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [RFC 4/7] lei: proposed command-listing and options Eric Wong
2020-12-26 11:26   ` "extinbox" term - was: [RFC 4/7] lei: proposed command-listing Eric Wong
2020-12-28 15:29     ` Kyle Meyer
2020-12-28 21:55       ` Eric Wong
2020-12-29  3:01         ` Kyle Meyer
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [RFC 5/7] lei_store: local storage for Local Email Interface Eric Wong
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [RFC 6/7] tests: more common JSON module loading Eric Wong
2020-12-15 11:47 ` [RFC 7/7] lei: use spawn (vfork + execve) for lazy start Eric Wong
2020-12-15 12:05 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2020-12-23  5:42   ` more considerations in UI/UX Kyle Meyer
2020-12-23  9:47     ` Eric Wong
2020-12-23 15:49       ` Kyle Meyer
2020-12-26 11:13     ` [RFC] lei: rename proposed "query" command to "q", add JSON output Eric Wong

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