Design language

1P_Rob The full hate I have for the modal garbage is in https://1password.community/discussion/comment/609132/#Comment_609132. I mean, the fact that I can’t look at the list of collections I’m trying to build side-by-side with the vaults I’m considering including in them is reason enough to hate this (not all of the vaults in the accounts I’m on are well named).

Collections are, in the main, useless because they appear to be sorted by name instead of being reorderable. This matters, because the addition of a differently named collection or a new account will change the hotkey for a collection. The reality is that I don’t want want ⌘1 to go to All Vaults, I want it to be my primary view—which would be a collection of my choosing. Actually, I want that to be ⌘0, but "reset zoom to 100%" is bound to that because Electron defaults are stupid for anything except web browsers and maybe editors. Why do I want it to be ⌘0? Because that’s what it was in 1Password 7 (I know; it’s actually "all vaults", but "all vaults" defaulted to the list of "show these vaults" making it infinitely more useful than the dancing hotkeys and other inanities we have right now).

If collections are going to be the way of the future, lean all the way in to them and make it so that I can prioritize them above my accounts, if I want. Or let me have ⌘0 back for one of my collections because it’s infinitely more useful than "reset zoom". Or maybe ⌘0 rotates between collections rather than having dancing hotkeys.

The main shortcut that I hit "by accident" (that is, I’m hitting it on purpose because it should mean something better than "reset zoom") is ⌘0. But interface / text resizing is not something that needs to be on hotkeys, because I have only hit ⌘- when I have intended to shrink the interface where I want it to stay and I’ve never intentionally hit ⌘+ in 1Password. These are wasted hotkeys, especially now that zoom is trivially settable in a good preferences window.

Absolutely all of the electron modals in 1Password 8 should be purged with prejudiced. Literally anything would be better than that. Why not take a page from the only really good Electron app out there (VSCode) and lean into tabs or split view or both? I can’t think of a single thing that I would be doing in 1Password where I don’t need to have access to other parts of 1Password while configuring it. (I mean that quite literally. I know one password, which is that to my personal account / vault set. Every other 1Password account to which I have access has the password stored in, where else, 1Password. If I’m registering a new device or adding a new vault, I absolutely need the New Account thing to be a floating window or a tab or anything except an Electron modal.