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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 99e26e0..1e08bb1 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 @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ taking that too literally. | 9 | No in-app view of configured shortcuts | discoverability | S | **done** | | 10 | Reaching an account's inbox takes two steps | workflow | S | open | | 11 | Icon, `.desktop` file, SlackBuild | packaging | M | open | +| 13 | No visual feedback that an action stuck | feedback | S | **done** | Sizes are rough: XS under an hour, S a sitting, M a session. @@ -360,6 +361,43 @@ Packaging, independent of everything above, and can proceed in parallel. --- +## 13. No visual feedback that an action stuck + +**Observed:** selecting a thread and hitting Delete changed nothing on screen. +No way to tell whether the thread was really going to be deleted on the next +sync, which is bad UX for every tag action, not only delete. + +**Cause:** not a missing update. `ThreadListModel::applyTagChange()` already +added the tag and emitted `dataChanged` across the whole row, so the Tags +column did change. But `SubjectColumn` was set to `QHeaderView::Stretch` while +`TagsColumn` came after it, so Subject absorbed all free width and pushed Tags +out of view. The feedback existed in the one column that could not be seen. + +**Approach:** two changes, since the cause was two things. + +- Column order is now Tags, Date, From, Subject. Subject stretches and is + last, so nothing sits to its right to be pushed out. The other three size + to their contents. +- A thread tagged `deleted` or `spam` styles its entire row: muted dark red + (`#8b2c2c`) or orange (`#a85c18`) fill, white text, struck through. Applied + through `Qt::BackgroundRole`, `Qt::ForegroundRole` and `Qt::FontRole` for + every column, so no cue depends on a single column staying visible. + +Strike-through rides along with the fill deliberately: it survives a theme +that overrides background colours, a colourblind reader, and a screenshot. +Bold for unread still composes with it. + +**Decisions:** no status-bar or toast changes, the existing `tagSelected()` +message stays as it is. Archive removes `inbox` and adds nothing, so an +archived thread gets no row styling; whether it should disappear from an inbox +query is deliberately left open rather than guessed at. + +**Verification:** four model tests covering the colours, the strike-through, +that styling spans every column, and that undo restores a plain row. Rendered +and inspected: normal, unread, deleted, spam, and deleted-plus-unread rows. + +--- + ## Deferred, unsized, or split out Items noted while triaging but not part of the original list. Same numbering |