No icon for groups in the chatlist

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Email-based instant messaging for Android.

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No icon for groups in the chatlist #1074

Closed adbenitez closed 5 years ago

adbenitez commented 5 years ago

The icon that differentiate groups from private chats, is missing for group entries in the chatlist

Android version: 7.1
Delta Chat version: 0.920.0

Simon-Laux commented 5 years ago

It was a design choice to remove it.

hpk42 commented 5 years ago

this change is intentional (i leave it to @r10s or @cyberta to argue for it :) is it an issue for you/break expectations of users you know off?

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 06:40 -0700, Asiel Díaz Benítez wrote:

The icon that differentiate groups from private chats, is missing for group entries in the chatlist

Android version: 7.1

Delta Chat version: 0.920.0

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Simon-Laux commented 5 years ago

There was an idea to make the group images square instead of round to have sth. to differentiate, but that would be a discussion for the forum.

r10s commented 5 years ago

yip, the removal was by design

the icon-usage was inconsequent, eg. it appears in the chatlist but not in the title
was never nice on desktop, never there on ios, syncing all three platforms seems to be some work - of course, doable, but then we noticed that none of the other bigger messengers use the icon at all
removing the icon makes the chatlist cleaner, esp. when using emojis as group names
it is pretty clear when seeing the chat name if it is a group or not, but in general, it brings them closer together

we'll see how this goes :)

r10s commented 5 years ago

i think, if needed, we can continue the discussion in the forum; also as it is not only android-releated