It wasn't possible to edit the shortcode or description anymore, because
signals weren't hooked up. I also added a separator to help separate
some of these controls visually.
This should be your main profile, since visually and functionally this
is "outside" the current room.
Since the workaround is a bit estoeric, I added a comment so I remember
why I did this later.
I added an icon to the read marker (to help distinguish it from
text-heavy chat rooms), and fixed up the padding. I also find myself
reaching to right-click rooms often to mark them as read, so why not do
this from the read marker itself?
Someone hit a nasty bug while attempting to find a KDE room on the
kde.org server, the error wouldn't come up normally and the dialog would
be blank. That's because that specific placeholder message doesn't
appear until you type something into the search field, which is weird.
There is a few other oddities with SearchPage that I squashed, including
showing the loading placeholder in more appropiate situations.
I don't have any hard numbers on what difference this makes, but it's
definitely a positive improvement. I noticed and fixed a few issues that
were made more glaring by recent changes in libQuotient:
1. Room::memberJoined is called during the historical loading or
whatever, when we only need that *after* stuff is settled.
2. We really don't need to sort the room's members immediately - it's
only relevant when UserListModel is used (and I think this was previous
behavior?) So now its done lazily.
3. We do not want to call Room::effectivePowerLevel willy-nilly. It may
become a more expensive lookup, and it's also varying levels of wasteful
depending on which sorting algorithm the STL uses. It doesn't cost much
for us to keep a temporary cache for the lambda function to use.
You may have noticed that the room list acts a bit... odd. You usually
can't scroll all the way down with a scrollwheel, it just
stops. It's possible to continue a little bit more with the scrollbar.
And sometimes the scrollbar doesn't know how big it's actually supposed
to be, commonly occuring when switching from a large room list to a
smaller one.
I narrowed it down the same usual problem with views in QtQuick:
variable sized delegates! Using GammaRay I figured out that for the
delegates currently in use they're slightly different: 46 pixels for
regular room delegates, 42 pixels for section headers and the "Find your
Friends" button was also different.
*Technically* TableView (and by extension TreeView) is supposed to allow
variable-sized delegates, and we should be able to advertise that with
rowHeightProvider. I tried a bunch of different solutions and none of
them worked reliably, so I took the usual sledgehammer approach of
making all of the delegates the same size.
This fixes all of the obvious bugs with the room list I could see, with
the one visual downside of making the section headers slightly taller.
But since I spent some time improving the tap targets, this is only a
visual change and not a functional one.
I also made sure to test it in compact mode, and everything shrinks as
expected.
For some reason I don't understand, the ItemDelegate used for these
sections are ginormous. There is quite a bit of padding which confuses
users as its unexpectedly used for the tap area.
I changed it so we only listen for taps inside of the contentItem
itself, which is a more suitable area.
When you just want to share or view your own profile, the UX has proven
to be a bit confusing. You could try to scroll to find a previous
message of yours, or hopelessly go down the rabbithole of settings (none
of which provide a copyable user ID currently.) Lets cut down on the
slack by providing a way to instantly open your profile from anywhere.
This replaces the "Show QR Code" action because this is duplicative
within the profile itself.
Move notifications button to a more appropriate position next to username. It used to live in the room/spaces bar, which doesn't make sense context wise. Also the mobile view moves to a bottom navbar anyway.
This is just a copy-paste of the adjacent settings tool button with appropriate icon and callback.
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
