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[Request] Some small UX improvements

Open Pyblo opened this issue 3 months ago • 1 comments

I really like using tenere together with my nvim setup in Zellij, but there is just few things that slow me down, or sometimes even stop me from having a smooth workflow.

  1. Chat history needs it's own border to indicate that it's focused - Currently there is no clear indication if i am focused on chat history to scroll. It happens often that i am in some kind of undefined focus/normal/prompt editing state, so need to press escape few time and fumble around normal mode, before i know in which mode/focus i am currently. This one breaks my workflow the most.
  2. Labels for prompt window and chat history window. this is a very minor but nice addition, so that new users can clearly know at first glance what is where... it's similar how Zellij and other TUI apps have panel naming for fast eye scanning.
  3. A status line with most useful keys:
  • in NORMAL mode: ? - help | i - INPUT mode | ENTER - Send | q - Quit
  • in INPUT mode: ESC - NORMAL mode | ENTER - new line This of course could be shortened to show less commands, but it still would improve the UX for first time users in a big way.

Currently i'm going constantly between tenere and oatmeal to pick the best local AI chat tui app. Tenere would come on top if it only had a bit more friendly TUI, where i wouldn't have to search from time to time how to do some things in the middle of working on my documents/projects.

Anyway the whole app is great and big kudos to you for creating it.

Pyblo avatar Nov 16 '25 17:11 Pyblo

yeah, It is been a while I did not work on tenere to improve it. I am still busy with other projects right now but I might get into tenere soon

pythops avatar Nov 16 '25 19:11 pythops