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diff --git a/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-03-post-0.1.0-usability.md b/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-03-post-0.1.0-usability.md index a35d9fa..3d5bcc3 100644 --- a/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-03-post-0.1.0-usability.md +++ b/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-03-post-0.1.0-usability.md @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ taking that too literally. | 131 | The markdown dialect and extensions are fixed | v2 | S | open, 2026-08-20, from the item 123 brainstorm. **Blocked on 123.** Configurable in the shape Hugo's config uses. Deliberately fixed initially: CommonMark plus autolink, strikethrough and tasklist | | 132 | Every action must have a shortcut, and that no longer serves | policy | S | open, 2026-08-20, raised by the user during the item 123 brainstorm. `everyActionHasAShortcut` was written when the action list was short; item 123 adds six more, and each new action consumes a chord whether or not anyone would press it. Replacement is the shape `everyActionIsReachableFromAMenu()` already has: menu reachability required, shortcuts a chosen subset. **Not** done inside 123, which would confuse two changes | | 133 | The composer shows no markdown syntax highlighting | v2 | S | open, 2026-08-20, from the item 123 brainstorm. **Blocked on 123.** A `QSyntaxHighlighter` over the composer's editor, so `**bold**` reads as bold while the buffer stays plain markdown. Standard Qt, no dependency. Deliberately after 123's formatting toolbar: agreeing with the grammar about nesting and about code spans suppressing what is inside them is the expensive part, and the toolbar is what makes the feature usable | -| 134 | The busy indicator is built inline and is about to be built twice | maintenance | S | open, 2026-08-20, raised by the user during the item 123 brainstorm. An indeterminate `QProgressBar` beside a status label, built inline in `MainWindow` as `m_syncProgress`, and item 123's composer needs the same pairing. Extract a widget class and convert `MainWindow` to it. **Not blocked on 123**, and better done first: if 123 lands first it creates the class itself and this row closes with it. The user's position is general, build once and reuse, so the inline habit `CLAUDE.md` records is a description of the code rather than a rule to follow | +| 134 | The busy indicator is built inline and is about to be built twice | maintenance | S | open, 2026-08-20, raised by the user during the item 123 brainstorm. An indeterminate `QProgressBar` beside a status label, built inline in `MainWindow` as `m_syncProgress`, and item 123's composer needs the same pairing. Extract a widget class and convert `MainWindow` to it. It must expose BOTH modes, not just the indeterminate one `MainWindow` happens to need: item 123's send popup drains a determinate bar during its undo countdown and switches the same widget to indeterminate when the command starts. **Not blocked on 123**, and better done first: if 123 lands first it creates the class itself and this row closes with it. The user's position is general, build once and reuse, so the inline habit `CLAUDE.md` records is a description of the code rather than a rule to follow | Sizes are rough: XS under an hour, S a sitting, M a session. diff --git a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-compose-and-send-design.md b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-compose-and-send-design.md index f410d00..aade2d1 100644 --- a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-compose-and-send-design.md +++ b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-compose-and-send-design.md @@ -262,14 +262,49 @@ declares a struct field named `signals`. countdown through to completion. It is modelled on Gmail's undo-send, and it is what settles what "cancel" can mean here. +Three rows, the same three in every state, so nothing reflows and the window +never jumps: + +``` ++-----------------------------------------+ +| Sending in 5... | status label +| ##################................. | bar, DETERMINATE, draining +| [ Undo ] | enabled ++-----------------------------------------+ + ++-----------------------------------------+ +| Sending... | then: Filing sent copy... +| #######################################| bar, INDETERMINATE +| [ Undo ] | visible, disabled ++-----------------------------------------+ +``` + +**The bar changes mode, it does not change place.** During the countdown it is +determinate and drains as the seconds pass, because a countdown has measurable +progress. It becomes indeterminate (`setRange(0, 0)`) when `send_command` +starts, because a send does not. This is why item 134's widget class must expose +both modes rather than hardcoding the indeterminate one. + +**Undo stays visible after it disables**, rather than disappearing. A control +that vanishes re-lays out the popup mid-operation, and a greyed Undo says why +cancelling is no longer possible where an absent one only looks like it was +never offered. + +The stages, in order: + ``` -Sending in 5... [ Undo ] countdown running, Undo live -Sending... [ Undo ] send_command running, Undo disabled -Filing sent copy... DraftStore writing to the sent folder -Removing draft... the draft revision is unlinked - popup and composer both close +Sending in N... the countdown, Undo live +Sending... send_command running, Undo disabled +Filing sent copy... DraftStore writing to the account's sent folder +Removing draft... the draft revision is unlinked + popup and composer both close ``` +**The status label takes its width from the longest string it can hold, in the +current language, not from its content.** Italian "Rimozione della bozza..." is +longer than "Removing draft...", so a label sized to content resizes the popup +between stages, which is the jumping the fixed layout exists to avoid. + **The delay is where cancelling is safe, and it is the only place it is.** Nothing has reached a server during the countdown, so Undo means genuinely nothing happened. Killing `send_command` once it is running does not: the |