Task #7876
Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago
* 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
*** https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/983
* 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