make activities-list a completable interface like activities-switch instead of a static table

[chriad]

I quickly browsed the issues and discussion but didn't see this topic come up. If it has, please point me to the discurssion.

I find the (vtable) buffer from activities-list hard to read. Yes, I can sort columns but I would prefer to narrow the rows.

The activities-switch interface is what I would like also for activities-list. There, all activities would be candidates and I could narrow them by name or the active state (or annother annotation item). Inactive activities could be fontified differently (e.g. greyed out) and "RET" on an active activity would switch to it and on an inactive activity would resume it. The candidates would be initially sorted such that the active's come before the inactive's.

[alphapapa]

This is a nice idea, but it sounds like what you're asking for is a vtable with live filtering, which would best be implemented in vtable itself rather than in Activities--that way every user of vtable would benefit.

Another option that could be useful is a taxy-based Activities list, which would permit dynamic grouping. A live-filtering taxy-magit-section would be a nice thing to have, too.

So I'd suggest that Someone(TM) implement a vtable- or taxy-magit-section-based live-filtering feature, and then Activities could benefit from it. I'd like to work on this myself, but I don't expect to have time to anytime soon.