I believe the UX performance in 1Password 8 is better than any other app we built in the past: https://twitter.com/mitchchn/status/1491253916004147203?s=20
Would love to learn more about the standard shortcuts that are missing — good keyboard shortcuts is a huge priority to us!
-- Roustem 1Password Founder
1. I despise the binding of ⌘- and ⌘+ to zoom, and even more ⌘0 to zoom reset. I know that those are standard Electron things, but there’s absolutely no reason to make them priority bindings for 1Password.
Beyond the zoom binding, I find the default size too big, so I am running at two zooms down by default. Every time I go for the ⌘0 (all "displayed vaults" in 1Password 7), my zoom resets because of this nonsense. What would make more sense is to: (a) remove those bindings; (b) let one of the collections or accounts be marked as a _default_ collection or vault and bind the display of the default to ⌘0; (c) offer zoom sizes either in the view menu or preferences; and maybe (d) offer the zoom-in zoom-out functionality only in the menu.
2. I absolutely cannot deal with the fact that preferences, collection editing, and a few other things are pseudo-modals that block the use of every other part of the 1Password 8 UI. It’s the #1 thing that calls 1Password 8 out as an Electron app, and it makes me so not ever want to touch these things, which makes them far less useful on a day-to-day basis. If you are unwilling to fix the fact that these things are garbage, at least enable multi-tab capabilities (I would love to see a tabbed 1Password interface). That allows VS Code to be less immediately annoying.
These are in order of annoyance, not priority. I consider the pseudo-modal issue to be more important because it makes the new features that you and Dave speak of unpleasant to configure. Fix these, and I’m back to recommending 1Password 8 wholeheartedly. I’m even missing 1Password mini less and appreciating the replacement a bit more (it’s still not _quite_ as good, IMO, but it’s getting there).
2. It might look silly but we actually had an internal debate about making the preference for floating preference window. I personally do not mind the single window approach because it makes things easier for the non-experienced users. I watched my mother-in-law losing the preferences window when she tried to configure 1Password 7. I know there are certain articles claiming that all Mac apps must have a floating Preferences window but there are quite a few counter-examples as well. Anyway, that preference might still happen.
1. I certainly relate to the pain about muscle memory when it comes to the keyboard shortcuts. At the same time, having an option to easily adjust the zoom settings for an app is such a great feature. I used 1Password on a 13" laptop and on Pro Display HDR and I love the ability to change the zoom factor. I now wish I could do this in every app. Perhaps a solution could be to make all keyboard shortcuts customizable?
The preferences is small enough that I don’t care about that as much. It’s symptom as much as anything else.
The pseudo-modal for collection management is painful.
I never want to open that pseudo-modal _again_ because it’s so awful. It’s narrow, it doesn’t let me look at the vaults while I’m working through what should be in a collection, etc.
This is a problem because it’s a major feature and someone who has used 1Password from the days when it was 1Passwd and you ran the Switcher’s blog…that’s bad news for the success of the feature. Never mind that this is the only way to get to the previous behaviour of "all vaults" meaning "all vaults that have been selected to show in all vaults" and that so that you’re not constantly getting shown things that you don’t want to see by default because the collection you have the old "all useful vaults" is on ⌘5 instead of ⌘1 or (better yet ⌘0).
On the zoom:
Keep the zoom, if you must. But for the love of Jobs, don’t bind it to ⌘-, ⌘0, and ⌘=. ⌘0 should be _either_ "show preferred collection or account" or "show main window" (leaving ⌘1 for "show preferred collection or account"). Seriously, that binding is the absolute #1 thing that I hate about the Slack app, and there are _legions_ of things to hate about that. Leave the zoom options in the View menu, because your mother-in-law, if she wants to zoom in isn’t going to remember ⌘= to zoom in. She’ll look in the menus.
1Password 8 is _much_ better than it was when I started using it in July. But these two things actively make me _angry_ about using it because: (1) the pseudo-modal, especially for collection management, makes me not want to use something that looks much better than previous mechanisms, and (2) the zoom gets in the way. I’m using 1Password on a single monitor (14" MBP, previously 13" MBP) and I want to set my zoom _once_ and never think about it again, especially if I hit ⌘0 (thinking "show main window" or "show preferred collection or account") but it resets my zoom. Having the zoom bound is a papercut that happens to me multiple times a week because it makes no sense in anything except a web browser.
There are many reasons for not specifying what framework an app is built in, the most obvious of which is that the general public both has no clue what Electron is nor a desire to find out.
Just because something isn't listed doesn't mean it's "buried". Like the other commenter said, you don't routinely see users of other frameworks and languages put it front and center, why should that expectation change with Electron?
Will you add support for increased contrast again? (it was removed in v8, and was one of the many regressions that made me effectively give up on 1Password)
