Task #7876
closedUI/UX improvement suggestions for matrix
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Description
Riot web / general¶
- remove the separation tab of Direct Messages and Rooms -> this damages readability
- An option to disable all categories might do this
- Adding to this: scrolling inside the groups can be very painful and fields are often too small
- disable color differentiation for each user name: make them all same, muted color.
- Afaics this refers to the avatar - maybe an option to disable avatars all together
- Numbers of unread messages on channels are not helpful
- Proposed solution: Indicate unread by bold only, remove the number count
- When creating a new public room the "room alias" field is empty and needs to be filled in manually
- This should be automatically derived from the name as a suggestion
- When inviting people to a room, local people (@xx:ungleich.ch) show up for a second and then vanish until I type the full name
- i.e. typing @xx - shows the name, I want to select it, it vanishes
- other people from other matrix servers are shown as suggested
- then finishing @xx:ungleich.ch shows it again
- Solution: don't make it show and vanish, but keep it
- Too much margin between text groups damage readability
- While chatting, the vertical spaces between texts are too high and waste space.
- The horizonal space between profile picture and the name is too wide, makes it harder for eyes to coherently follow who wrote what.
- Time of writing is not shown by default and only reveals on mouseover, requires extra movement for catching information.
- Having to jump big spaces between different information (who wrote it what, when) makes it hard for the eyes to focus.
- It is "impossible" to delete a room
- There is no delete button
- There seems to be a workaround to kick all users, make it non joinable (how?) and leave it
- untested
- Very basic functionality seems to be missing
- When creating a new room and inviting users, nick autocompletion when writing a message does not work
- This only works when invited users joined
- This is very limiting/confusing, as one might want to write already messages for the people who join eventually
- Even if they don't join, the autocomplete should be able to reference people who are invited
- When writing in "direct chat", nick auto completion of OTHER users I write to does not work
- Use case: "Did you talk to @s..." -- does not autocomplete
- Suggestion: have a general auto completion, independent of the room I am writing in
- Selecting auto completion of users is easier in mattermost:
- mattermost shows a list and allows to finish by <tab> or <enter>
- matrix requires arrow up or clicking
- There is not emoticon selection list for regular messages
- However there is one for reactions
- This is a bit inconsistent and confuses -> should be consistently available
- Room classifications (low, favorite, etc.) seem to be CLIENT specific
- Opening the browser on a different computer gives an old/different room view
- Causes a lot of extra work for organising, i.e. x times for x devices
- Sometimes the members are shown instead of the room title in the room list (???)
- See attachment to this ticket
- Mattermost has a "thread view" where one can show all messages in a thread
- it only appears if you click on the reply button next to one of the messages in the thread
- it is quite convenient to show old threads
- Inconsistent scroll bar behaviour
- left/right are different
- https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/12328
- When being in an empty room (i.e. for sharing messages with yourself) a warning repeats
- "There's no one else here! Would you like to invite others or stop warning about the empty room?"
- Even clicking "stop warning" the messages comes back (different device, different browser)
- Where are those settings saved?
- Cannot search for parts of an URL
- Specifically "https://support.ungleich.ch/Ticket/Display.html?id=X", searching for X returns results in mattermost, but not matrix
- Where is search located at in matrix? Server? Client?
- When editing a multi line message, cursor up at some point goes into editing the PREVIOUS message
- When not having text to be sent inside the text field for sending messages, this behaviour makes sense
- However as soon as there is text in the text bar, it should not move up to previous messages anymore
- Shields are inconsistent (riot-web 1.6.0)
- In 1:1 rooms the shields (black/green) appear, even if room is not encrypted
- In n people rooms shields are not displayed next to the participants
RiotX¶
- Notifications are by default for EVERY message
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Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago
- Status changed from New to In Progress
Adding Timothee as a watcher -- these are bugs/problems we discover over the time using matrix and might either want to fix or submit upstream or both.
Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago
- Project changed from 16 to Open Infrastructure
- Description updated (diff)
Updated by Timothée Floure over 4 years ago
Going over mentionned issues to give more context / initial leads on how to fix them. We're speaking of riot-web here.
Redmine Admin wrote:
- remove the separation tab of Direct Messages and Rooms -> this damages readability
- An option to disable all categories might do this
- Adding to this: scrolling inside the groups can be very painful and fields are often too small
Related code: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/blob/develop/src/components/views/rooms/RoomList.js#L754
Disabling sublists looks doable at first glance, and should not be too hard to implement.
- disable color differentiation for each user name: make them all same, muted color.
- Related code: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/blob/develop/src/components/views/messages/SenderProfile.js#L97
- Disabling it is trivial. I don't have a strong opinion on this => I think a configuration checkbox would be best.
- Afaics this refers to the avatar - maybe an option to disable avatars all together
There is a compact mode under "General > Theme", which is more compact but kind of weird since it does not disable avatars. I think it could be improved (should not be hard from the code I read).
- Numbers of unread messages on channels are not helpful
- Proposed solution: Indicate unread by bold only, remove the number count
That's already the case when you select "Mentions only" notifications for a room. See https://paste.gnugen.ch/raw/oh70
- When creating a new public room the "room alias" field is empty and needs to be filled in manually
- This should be automatically derived from the name as a suggestion
Somewhere is this file: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/blob/develop/src/components/views/dialogs/CreateRoomDialog.js
Should not be hard.
- When inviting people to a room, local people (@xx:ungleich.ch) show up for a second and then vanish until I type the full name
- i.e. typing @xx - shows the name, I want to select it, it vanishes
- other people from other matrix servers are shown as suggested
- then finishing @xx:ungleich.ch shows it again
- Solution: don't make it show and vanish, but keep it
Looks like a bug, which sounds familiar (I likely encountered it a few times).
- Too much margin between text groups damage readability
- While chatting, the vertical spaces between texts are too high and waste space.
- The horizonal space between profile picture and the name is too wide, makes it harder for eyes to coherently follow who wrote what.
- Time of writing is not shown by default and only reveals on mouseover, requires extra movement for catching information.
- Having to jump big spaces between different information (who wrote it what, when) makes it hard for the eyes to focus.
See compact timeline layout mention above.
=> Most of the suggestions require fine-tuning and no big changes. The riot-web / matrix-react-sdk code is easy to navigate.
PS: Matrix contributor hat for this, not ctt'd.
Updated by Timothée Floure over 4 years ago
Redmine Admin wrote:
- It is "impossible" to delete a room
- There is no delete button
- There seems to be a workaround to kick all users, make it non joinable (how?) and leave it
- untested
- Very basic functionality seems to be missing
Being discussed on https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/6978
Updated by Timothée Floure over 4 years ago
Currently looking at the compact timeline mode (will likely remove avatars): if @Sanghee Kim is willing to make me a mockup, I can implement it.
Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago
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- Description updated (diff)
Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago
- Subject changed from U/UXI improvement points for matrix to UI/UX improvement suggestions for matrix
Updated by Nico Schottelius 12 months ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Rejected