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Feature request: person icon in "people" room should change color based on presence #4199
Feature request: person icon in "people" room should change color based on presence #4199
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How should chats with multiple users be handled? Any room may arbitrarily be tagged as a 1:1 chat, even if it is not. Example cases:
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Relying just on colour change may not work so well for people who are colour-blind, so we may want to add some additional method of indicating presence. |
@turt2live Didn't see it before, but looks like this came up in the general UX thread: #2984 (comment) ...in which one suggestion was to have a "multiple people" icon for rooms with more than one person. @uhoreg That's fair. I'd note that there are other features that may not work well for colorblind people as well - red vs. (default) green for the unread notifications counter, for example. It may be worth considering dedicated color schemes for varying types of colorblindness. (Custom theme support would take care of a lot of this.) Alternatively, many messengers use a person icon with a clock on it to mean "away" and so on - that would also be reasonable, though the icon may be too small for that to make sense. You could maybe use meaningful icons by themselves (without a "person" icon), EDIT: Oh, though one of the examples given above was giphy, and there's no way for an account to advertise the fact that it's a bot, is there? |
Having bots in rooms causes other issues, such as the room name (https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/3087). Part of the fix for that would help address the concern of a 1:1 with someone including a bot, I suppose. |
As workaround maybe we can display status of first user in room users list for private rooms, or first room admin? |
At now direct chats in left room list already contain small We can show status of second user if room market as direct and with 2 users. And for direct rooms with more that 2 users - very often private chats contain only bots that have no admin permission, so room have only 2 admins and we can show status of second admin of room (or user with max permissions excluding current user). If direct room will contain more than 2 real users, room admin can manually set user to show presence via increase room permission for it. |
What about showing a tiny pie chart? Full disk if all members (not counting oneself) are present, fully absent if none are? Maybe even part of it in a different colour if that is the room they are perusing right now? |
If you showed a pie chart and had a lot of users in the chat, but some of them offline for weeks, the pie chart would never be full. Maybe there could be some threshold based on the median offline time? |
It should show availability rather than presence, and availability is something that depends on presence, but also on a flag settable per user, per room. During work hours, I may only be available to my customer/neighbour in the business rooms, not in the leisure rooms. |
Any progress on this yet? It's the biggest "feature" I'm missing from the desktop client. I feel like the problem here is trying to find the "one fits all" solution instead of implementing something basic first (show a green dot when somebody in the room is online). The screenshots on https://about.riot.im/ show a green dot (which I assume means the person in question is online). Is this a fake? Is this only implemented in web? |
Part of the issue is the matrix.org server has disabled presence support due to performance issues, so even if that design was implemented it wouldn't work as expected for a huge amount of people |
AFAIK the server has the presence disabled by default but it can be enabled by the server admin. How about build the feature and let the server owner decide on enabling the feature or not. Because for organizations which host their own server for their companies and for small teams this is really a huge thing to have. |
It's enabled by default in synapse |
Then this is another reason, if there weren't enough, that this should be a high priority feature. |
@t3chguy I don't really think thats part of the issue. And yes, presence is in fact enabled by default on |
This looks awesome! 😀 |
It is blocked on an existing PR, the designer also must sign off on it, with it being the holidays a little while. |
Well, there is hope. As long as it will reach upstream in the next months, it's worth the waiting! :) |
I've subscribed to the pull request. Can't wait. |
just for googlers: this feature is not enabled on matrix.org for performance reasons |
Matrix already exposes (online/unavailable/offline) presence, it would be nice if the icons in the room list changed color based on that presence rather than staying green all the time.
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