Our previous iteration is hitting some limitations as the power of
profiles on Matrix grows. For example, where do we put common rooms or
extra profile fields?
I re-arranged everything to group similar actions together - instead of
throwing it all into one big list. We basically trade vertical for
horizontal space, and gives us more headroom for extra fields when we
want to add more.
In my opinion, the significance of these options was still not super
clear. It wasn't obvious that the setting under Appearance will disable
them globally, and that the per-room option was discoverable.
Another change was using the term "Link preview" instead of "URL
preview", which is more common verbiage in chat applications other than
Element.
We use the "ignore" terminology elsewhere, so saying "block" here is
kinda weird. I also made it clearer that this also rejects the invite,
in case that wasn't obvious.
I recieved a few invites from unknown users, and I had no idea who they
were/came from. I could check their profile to see if we had any rooms
in common, but there was no way to actually check their profile!
This makes it possible to open their profile by clicking their avatar
(like elsewhere) but also adds a button to make it even more obvious.
Direct chats by their very nature is between two users, and you usually
can keep track of who said what. There's no point in including the
sender's name here, and most other chat applications exclude it for this
reason (including Element X.)
The key can be in the unstable features list, but it can be false. This
stops some features showing up and hitting API that isn't actually
implemented.
The QML code of the various QML modules is compiled to C++ by
qmlcachegen and then compiled into the final binary. Unfortunately, in
the current setup, the plugin for the org.kde.neochat QML module is not
linked into the app because qmlimportscanner can't find usages of it. No
generated C++ code for that module is then run and the QML is
interpreted from its bytecode instead.
This is likely due to the project not following recommended QML
structure and because it is not using qt_* variants of certain cmake
commands. It should not be necessary to link against the plugins
manually.
As a quick fix, link against the plugin explicitly and use qt_*
variants of cmake commands to help qmlimportscanner and to pick up the
existing C++ code.
I wondered for a while (and could tell) when people were using NeoChat
because they would react with cold, monochrome hearts. Let's add more
color to our world!
I noticed a bit of an annoying behavior with the quick format bar. Whenever I make a typo when writing a message I usually go back with a ctrl+shift+arrow selection to correct it, and that of course triggers the bar, but then there wasn't any obvious way to make it go away (other than pressing backspace or delete, [ChatBar.qml#L339](https://invent.kde.org/network/neochat/-/blob/master/src/chatbar/ChatBar.qml?ref_type=heads#L339)), so it'd always be stuck visible until I clicked somewhere with my mouse, which I found somewhat annoying.
This intends to fix that, by hiding it whenever the selection is cleared, which seems like a reasonable and expected behavior to me. I would also be okay with making it dismissable with escape, if this current suggestion has some unintended side-effect that I've missed.
I also think that this should in practice "solve" this bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511590 but I didn't link it directly as their suggested solution is smarter placement of the bar.
"X has put Y out of the room" is a British English style sentence. Which
is fine, but I'm using en_US, not en_UK.
Re-phrase this to sound a bit more American (which is the linguistic
style we use for the base strings), and then count on the en_UK
translators bringing back the old phrasing for en_UK.
I didn't realize when redoing the tooltip for DMs that directChatInvites
was a boolean, not an integer type. Now it's changed to an integer type,
which fixes the DM invite count.
NeoChat apparently didn't count normal room invites until now either, so
now Home is highlighted in that case. Now it should be harder to miss
these kinds of invites.
You can see this while starting NeoChat, as it always fails because
localMember() isn't valid at this point. This is called during the
ChatBar setup as we're setting up the text, which also happens during
room switch.
I forgot to horizontally center the room alias label, so it was usually
stuck to the left-side. I also don't know why I put the room alias on
top and the room name on the bottom, so those are swapped now too.
Without doing this, it's possible to start NeoChat and have no badge
count despite having notable notifications. The reason for this is if
badgeNotificationCount was updated and changed before this function
call, and a call to refreshBadgeNotificationCount doesn't emit the
changed signal.
This is easy to work around by calling updateBadgeNotificationCount
ourselves.
As seen in the bug report, this setting is a bit confusing. First, it
refers to "message activity" but in reality it does take into account
all events. This is fine in my opinion, so I clarified that point.
Another thing is that it wasn't clear that timeline visibility settings
currently affect the sorting, so I added a tip about that.
Finally I wasn't happy with these two options being called "Activity"
so the old "Activity" setting is now called "Importance". The "Last
Message Activity" setting is now called "Newest Events".
BUG: 508480
FIXED-IN: 25.12.0
For example, accepting a verification on another device shows a giant
red security icon which isn't really suitable. I chucked the
dialog-information icon in for some of the neutral-sounding messages so
this dialog can be a little less intimidating.
BUG: 510421
FIXED-IN: 24.08.3
I find myself doing the same routine: I want to inspect a room's state,
so I have to go hunting for the Developer Tools button. And then I have
to do a few clicks to even get the correct room, what a waste of time!
So I added a new button to the sidebar to open the Developer Tools for
the current room.
As we've continued to add more and more room actions, I'm not entirely
happy with how they're worded. Some are super short and sweet like
"Verify User" while others refer to the room as if the sidebar wasn't
enough context: "Search in this room".
I redid all of the button's text so they're shorter, like "Search
Messages".
Right now there's not an easy way to quickly bring up message search. If
you press CTRL+F (with the room information sidebar *closed*, for some
reason) that brings up the same dialog as CTRL+K which seems redundant.
I assigned that shortcut to the message search dialog instead, which is
makes much more sense in my opinion. I also made sure its disabled in
spaces or when there's not a room open.
BUG: 487270
FIXED-IN: 25.12.0
We would incorrectly show a "truncate" button for standalone images
which isn't applicable since there's no text. That check has been fixed,
and it doesn't seem to regress normal link previews.
Another is that if there's only an image, our layout would center the
image which looks awkward since almost everything else is left-aligned
in chat. This is also fixed, which notably matches up to Element Web's
behavior.
I added support for the hover link indicator as well. Someone could
maliciously hide it via Markdown but have a legitimate-looking link
preview, for example. You can check that by hovering over the link in
the message itself, but now the link preview is another way to confirm
that!
Widgets support is incredibly useful and so is this button, but it has a
few problems. The most obvious is that it's still enabled even if you
don't actually have the permission to start Jitsi meetings, so I fixed
that. I also made sure it's hidden when viewing spaces too.
Another problem is that you can't easily tell if a meeting is currently
in progress either, nor do we have a good icon for that in Breeze. So I
changed the tooltip and colored the icon in this case.
The final problem I fixed is something not exclusive to NeoChat, but
generally all chat applications with this feature - there's no
confirmation! To stop "butt-dialing" random people or rooms, I added a
prompt before starting or joining a meeting.
2b0251c593 changed the logic to also show direct messages inside a space
However this also causes direct messages to be shown when *not* inside a space, which is undesirable
