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vamolessa / verco

A simple Git/Mercurial/PlasticSCM tui client based on keyboard shortcuts
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tig-like user experience #33

Open gl-yziquel opened 1 year ago

gl-yziquel commented 1 year ago

This may feel a bit presumptuous, but I believe a tig-like user experience would not be overly dumb: I'm using verco as it is the only maintained TUI for mercurial that I know of, and what I like about tig is the fact that with four keystrokes (1. t 2. i 3. g 4. enter), one may visualise the whole tree of commits after a git fetch or git pull. I'm looking for a similar experience with hg. verco is the only thing that comes close, but it requires more keystrokes to get to the relevant screen.

I thus, humbly, or presumptuously, suggest making that user experience as the default. Because:

  1. One can always get back to the other functionalities of verco with some keystrokes anyway.
  2. That may ease the uptake of verco for the kind of niche that I represent.
vamolessa commented 1 year ago

You mean just putting the log screen as the default? So like as you first open verco, it starts in the log history screen?

Would a cli option that lets you choose the first screen be enough? Something like verco --screen log and then you would be able to create an alias to it.

gl-yziquel commented 1 year ago

Yes. I mean putting the log screen as the default.

No. I do not mean adding a cli option: I can live with the current situation.

I believe it's a design choice you have to make.

I will adapt either way.

It seems you'd rather have it the current way. I'm just saying that I believe users of your tool (which is the only tig alternative for mercurial that I know of) would perhaps like having the log screen pop up first. That's what I was after, and what I believe most users will be after.

The design choice is up to. I believe a --screen log is a workaround that's akin to splitting the apple in half. Or akin to saying that the earth is half flat half round, like a bowl, just to satisfy "everyone", here ending up with a "theory" that's even less credible than Flat Earth. I thus wouldn't endorse a --screen log option from a UX point of view. But it's up to you.