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Meta: Message/conversation appearance

This can be interpreted as summary of issues about the appearance and display of messages/conversations. Some suggestions are from other issues, some are from Gajim MUC. Concentrating all the ideas in one issue may provide a better overview. Additions are always welcome! The idea is to collect and integrate new issues/comments about chat appearance into this meta issue.

Chat

  • Implement a switch to be able to change between simple / rich content display of conversations (old / new design)
  • Display avatars of chat participants alongside each consecutive message, see #3724 (closed)
  • Implement Consistent Color Generation (XEP-0392) for default avatars, see #9288 (closed)
  • Optional: Display messages in speech bubbles, see #9052 (closed)
  • Support Chat Markers XEP-0333, see #8163 (closed)
  • Highlight new incoming message text for x seconds, see #9351
  • Indentation of multi-line messages, see #9052 (closed)
  • Graphically highlight citations, see #9681
  • Fix: Lock icon for encrypted messages looks bad with dark theme, see #8860 (closed)
  • Fix: Lock icon for encrypted messages is copied along with chat messages on copy / paste, see #8860 (closed)
  • Additional ability to copy plain message text without timestamp / nick (e.g. via context menu > copy message / copy text), see #3760 (closed)
  • Add dark theme support in chat, see #8763 (closed)
  • Add download option to link handling, see gajim-plugins#430 (closed)
  • Display throbber / hint when syncing with MAM, see #8131
  • Dynamically load history when scrolling to the top, #9683
  • Display errors about messages not being sent near the associated message (e.g. tooltip), see #8527 (closed)
  • Ability to change font size of messages via Ctrl + + / -, see #4468 (closed)
  • Fix: Scrollbar breaks dialog when sending or receiving long links, see #8782 (closed)
  • Fix: Dates for history are not calculated correctly, see #9272 (closed)
  • Restored messages should be distinguishable from newly received ones

File transfers

  • Inline display of file transfers (both Jingle / Http Upload), see #7583 and also #5671
  • Preview icon for mime type of sent / received files (e.g. PDF, see gajim-plugins!188 (merged))

Commands

  • Display a hovering listbox for possible nicknames of MUC occupants when pressing Tab, see #4653 (closed)
  • Display a hovering listbox for possible commands when starting a message with /

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To be continued.

Edited by Daniel Brötzmann