Settings: Widen the command fields

[Taitava]

The above screenshot shows how small the command fields are. Take a look at the Git Bash command field. The command is so long that it's not completely visible. And I suspect that users can have far more longer commands than I currently have. One shine of light is the gray preview text at the left side, that always shows the full command, but still the text field should be longer.

There is one issue to be dealt with when widening the text field. It can compete of space with the preview text. I need to find a way to extract the preview text on a new row. This way the preview text could go wider than it currently can, and the text field can be widened too.

(See the last command preview in the screenshot. It shows that I happened to take the screenshot at time 13:37, which becomes 1337, which means elite in some old nerd slang 😄 ).

[FelipeRearden]

\@Taitava, my suggestion about the UI - I'm gonna use Git GUI as an example:

[line1 - Command Name] -> Git GUI [line 2 - Command Preview] -> start git-gui [line 3 - Command Field] -> [start git-gui] [gear icon] [horizontal line]

I don't know if it is feasible but this way we get more space for preview and field

Another idea could be fix the [gear icon] in the right side in the [line 1] which will open space for [line 3]

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Following #20 the delete button could be placed next [gear icon]

• An icon instead of Apply Deletions could save some space too :)

[Taitava]

Yea, three rows is actually quite good idea! I'll play around and see which order will look best. Command preview at the middle and command field at the bottom might be a good idea. And moving the gear icon (+ delete icon like you said) to line 1 is good idea too.

[Taitava]

I think I'll swap command preview and command field lines so that the preview will be at the bottom. This is how it will approximately look like:

Note that this screenshot does not have the delete button as I'm developing it in a separate Git branch. But delete will be at the right side of the cog icon.

[Taitava]

Done.

[FelipeRearden]

@Taitava, it is much better swapping line 2 and line 3 !!!!!

The new beautiful UI is working perfect on MacOS - Release 0.3.0

[Taitava]

Thank you! Nice to know that it looks good. I'm not so graphical person that I could always be able to design clear user interfaces. I'm more technical person who makes stuff work behind the scenes, and then the outfit can sometimes be not so beautiful 😄 .

[FelipeRearden]

@Taitava , I think you a doing a fantastic job!!!!

Thanks for sharing. Now I know this I will me more comfortable to suggest anything related to the UI.

:)

[Taitava]

Sure, all suggestions are welcome! Thanks! 🙂