This is some bug in Flow (that is really hard to debug, I can't get it
to exit at all) but we can work around it for a minor visual impact. It
seems to me allow the reaction list to become slightly larger, but
that's about it.
BUG: 504344
FIXED-IN: 25.12.2
The devices entry gone (not even Element has this) and so is the logout
action. The Switch account menu item is moved to the bottom so its
easier to access by mouse. The "Open Secret Backup" is moved under
Security settings where it lives next to the other crypto-related
settings.
This is due to some kind of bug in ListView that never resettles
properly for bottom-to-top views. This can arise when the pinned message
is loaded (because that squishes the view) or the window is resized
(because that also resizes the view.)
We can work around it by assuming the following:
1. The RoomPage knows the window is resizing because it gets its height
changed before TimelineView.
2. The first height change can be a marker to position the view at the
beginning.
This fixes the issue for me, I did the following in order to test this:
* Switch between many rooms, especially ones with a pinned message. Now
all of them start at the bottom as they should.
* Resize the window, ensure that if you scrolled it stays around that
position - otherwise it sticks at the bottom.
I found that 50% of the time, NeoChat won't restore the last space but
instead get stuck at Home. Even worse, it will overwrite Home's last
opened room with the one from the space - resulting in really buggy
behavior.
The reason why this happens is partly due to the space hierarchy cache
(I think) but that's not the real problem in my opinion. During
setCurrentSpace, we needlessly update the last space & room config
despite us being the ones already reading it.
In addition to that I also refactored this code a bit to be more
consolidated and readable.
This fixes the annoying "I just scrolled down to the bottom, how come
NeoChat doesn't think I did?"
From what I can tell this is also ListView bug (or something caused by
our style/Kirigami) that creates cases like contentY being -643.2 (for a
ListView of height 643) thus that's not "at Y's end". For our case
though, we don't care and can safely round it.
There's two parts to making this work mainly:
1. Use getEvent instead of findInTimeline so the related event is
actually found.
2. Close the dialog once a reply relation is found, so you can easily
reply in the chat bar.
This fixes an odd disconnect you can sometimes see when the notification
isn't an invite or a "direct chat notification", which conflicts with
what we use to control the tooltip and visibility.
There are only three, somewhat odd menu items remaining in this menu.
(Two if you don't have a camera.)
* Find your Friends, which is already accessible in a few other places
and currently has dubious utility.
* Create a Room, which also is barely used and can be combined with the
Create Space button in the space drawer.
* Scan a QR code, which can be placed in the account menu. I know this
isn't the most ideal place, but I can't think of anything better at the
moment.
This is another thing that enables us to view multiple rooms in a single
timeline. Specifically, this improves the experience in room search
going across room versions and getting a correct readOnly status (for
hiding certain hover actions.)
There's a bug in how we're using this function in room search, but we
definitely don't want it to crash. The event is technically not in the
timeline, so we were dereferencing an invalid iterator or whatever.
Contrary to popular belief (unfortunately) these reports are *only* sent
to your own server, which is then opaquely handled in some unknownable
way.
See #707
Not all events that are processed in this model belong to the room, e.g.
searching through multiple room versions. Now the model finds the
correct room based on the reported room in the event.
This fixes searching through upgraded rooms, and unblocks searching
through multiple rooms in the future.
Having both the member list and permission controls is troublesome, and
scales the larger your moderation team is. We eventually may want to
manage banned/muted users too so I think it warrants having a new page.
I also moved the search field to the top so it's more accessible.
As for permissions, I tried to improve the UX generally while not
changing it too heavily. First the easy change is to the text, hopefully
the sections should be clearer (especially for "state" events.) The
bigger change here is the new sections, I tried to make it more useful
and organized. Additionally, I added more permissions like sharing live
locations and polls so they're more easily configurable.
One other change is that permissions are visible regardless of whether
you can set them or not, matching Element's behavior.
We were previously assuming that we always want to parent these menus to
RoomPage, but that only exists on the main window. If you tried to open
the menu for say - the search window - then it would confusingly still
open on the main menu.
Thankfully the way to fix this is simple, by passing a parent QtObject
around.
These are more common than we thought, good examples are pinned or
searched messages - which are not going to be in the room's history
unless you happen to have them loaded. But currently our message menu
infrastructure expects them to be, since its looked up by the room +
event ID.
To fix this is simple, we now move the job of finding the event to the
caller which may use a model instead. I didn't fix all existing
call-sites yet, mainly the message menu opening one since that was the
most obvious bug. But this opens up the door for other assumptions about
room history to be fixed too.
I had to do a bit of C++ re-jiggering in order to expose useful
functions to QML.
This is that bug that causes reply colors to be white, and this error to
print in the log:
qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/neochat/messagecontent/ReplyComponent.qml:41: TypeError: Cannot read property 'color' of null
The reason why this happens is inside of EventMessageContentModel, it
needs to be able to find the relevant event in the room to fetch the
room member (and then their color.) Dependent on many variables to
align, this can happen easily if you are faster than your server giving
you said events.
But this is an easy fix, we obviously get the event afterwards and just
need to re-evaluate the the author property. I also made sure it falls
back to some color instead of white, which will also quiet the error.
You were previously relegated to looking at any avatars or a buggy
tooltip, but suffer no longer! If you tap on a message's read marker, a
dialog will pop up listing the users who have read it.
Uou can also view their profiles from here, etc.
