Previously timestamps were in the right-hand side of the messages which made it very hard to relate timestamps with their corresponding messages.
Moving them right next to the name makes much better UX wise (and surprisingly didn't make the UI too crowded). I have tested this in dark light and bubbles mode, and it all looks good and comfortable to me.
I have also tweaked how the timestamps are formatted.
- For messages on the same day, it will skip the date part.
- For recent days, it uses relative timestamp (yesterday, XX:XX)
- For everything before its shows short form date and time
The tooltip now uses Long Format of Date and Time.
I did this for images a while back, but not for these. Otherwise you
can't press escape or perform other key navigation functions easily.
BUG: 515462
FIXED-IN: 25.12.2
MessageDelegate calls model.findEvent(root.eventId), which existed in
MessageFilterModel but was missing in MediaMessageFilterModel. This adds
a findEvent() implementation to MediaMessageFilterModel so the context
menu works correctly in the media scroll view.
In a future patch I want to add support for viewing banned/invited
users, and it's also been mentioned that UserListModel is quite slow
too.
The biggest cost is sorting the member list (power level and
alphabetically) and this happened in a few different ways:
* When the member list updated
* The user switches rooms
* Misc events such as the palette changing
But this was pretty inefficient, because internally Quotient::Room keeps
a list of members, and we kept re-sorting that same list. Our
connections were also too broad and despite having signals for members
joining and leaving we just reloaded the entire list anyway.
So my new solution is to keep the list persistently sorted in
NeoChatRoom, and reload that in UserListModel. This model also keeps
track of *all* members - including ones that left - which will be used
for the aforementioned feature. So UserFilterModel now filters out only
the joined members, and that will be configurable in the future.
I also added two new roles to UserListModel for membership and color
respectively (which makes some dead code useful again) and fixed us
overwriting the built-in Qt roles accidentally.
I don't really like these pages in NeoChat much, there's only a few
buttons, and they really blend together. In an attempt to alleviate
this problem, I did the following:
* Added icons to the Login and Register actions, which does complement
the other buttons on this page.
* Removed the icons from the "Continue" and "Go back" buttons, which did
nothing but add confusing arrows.
* Moved the "Go back" button, fixed the capitalization and moved it to a
separate FormCard.
* Made it so the "Settings" button is only shown on the initial page, to
reduce the amount of UI clutter while logging in.
This introduces a new NeoChatDateTime object that wraps a QDateTime. The intent is that it can be passed to QML and has a series of functions that format the QDateTime into the various string representations we need.
This means we only have to send the single object to QML and then the correct string can be grabbed from there, simplifying the backend. It is also easy to add a new representation if needed as a function with a QString output and Q_PROPERTY can be added and then it will be available.
