On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:43:37 -0400, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:44:28 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:14:52 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> 
> > Were there actual complaints about the usability of the current
> > approach?
> > 
> > I much preferred your alternative approach (merging the history while
> > leaving the UI alone).
> 
> Personally I would like to be able to customize the hello screen to
> remove the search box.

id:"1318253982-23588-2-git-send-email-daniel@schoepe.org" ?

> I find it confusing that that 's' jumps to the search box there, and
> everywhere else brings up the mini-buffer. That might be just me, and
> the fact that I bind "C-c s" globally to notmuch-search.  I could
> easily believe that for new users having a search box is nicer.

It was intended for people coming from more traditional clients, to help
get them into the swing of notmuch. Maybe also a bit of a joke in
comparison to the gmail interface. (Carl came up with the original idea
- I just knocked out some code.)