Created attachment 303283 [details] mail-client/bower-9999.ebuild Needs notmuch-deliver to work (see issue #405229)
bower doesn't use autotools. You could use only EAPI4 default functions. How bower is better than alot? What are the future plans for bower?
Its better in: 1) Its faster. no freezes when just moving cursor up/down as in alot (not confirmed by anyone else, see https://github.com/pazz/alot/issues/364) 2) Imho much more convenient thread-view which splits terminal on two windows: upper one with list of messages, and message pager in the bottom one. 3) It already has support for in-buffer search ('/' key binding) Though it's far from being any degree polished and does not even have key binding configuration yet. From its readme: I wrote it for me, but you might like it, too. Commits happen about once a month, don't know if they are significant or not.
Also, alot's feature #316 (navigating to urls directly from mail client) is resolved in bower, while alot's leading developer says that we are miles away from that. And smooth scrolling of messages (which applies for free to point 2 from my previous comment). And per-message tag editing
I am using bower since quite some time as my main notmuch client. Points 1) and 2) from comment #2 are the most important ones to me: Extremely fast and the tree in the top part is absolutely awesome! There are regular commits and the dev seems to be responsive (immediately answered to my github issue), and it looks as if he would implement reasonable features/fixes.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ec2f57caada3e15faca5b08b845bcd831b3cfca4 commit ec2f57caada3e15faca5b08b845bcd831b3cfca4 Author: Ralph Seichter <github@seichter.de> AuthorDate: 2018-10-19 19:56:39 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-11-22 20:27:35 +0000 mail-client/bower: terminal client for Notmuch (new package) Bower is a curses frontend for the Notmuch email system, written in Mercury. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/405843 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.49, Repoman-2.3.11 Signed-off-by: Ralph Seichter <gentoo@seichter.de> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/10180 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> mail-client/bower/Manifest | 1 + mail-client/bower/bower-0.9.ebuild | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mail-client/bower/metadata.xml | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+)
