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.
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.
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.
Unfortunately a pretty common spam/annoyance online is putting "spam"
via abusing Unicode symbols - which is used for multilingual support -
in display names. This typically results in an unreadable word jumble in
our UI, which looks bad.
So I decided to put a stop to that by clipping some labels that could be
used for this crap. I didn't cover *everything* yet, but this at least
prevents these idiots from showing up in the completion menu, the room
member list and as authors for messages.
