Deep links doesn't seem to work

alexander-potemkin commented 11 months ago

Your use case

What would you like to do?

Provide an option to open a client (desktop, mobile) with prefilled server and, ideally, only a login option (without registration). I can make all that kind of customizations on web client easily, but for desktop & mobile I need clone, reproduce build, change things, which is all quite resource intense task.

Why would you like to do it?

To provide an option to easily log in to the server for non-tech savvy users. Something of the kind seems to be at Matrix.org server, but it doesn't work for a customer server.

How would you like to achieve it?

I tried:

element://vector/webapp/#/room/%23discuss%3Amyserver.com
element://vector/webapp/#/user/@nickname:myserver.com

None of them works.

Desktop doesn't pick it up on a fresh start (only if it was already started), but when I click login/register, it's back to matrix.org server. iOS app just ignores that altogether.

So, having one working way to call the client with predefined server and, ideally, option to login (not register), via something like element://vector/webapp/#/room/%23discuss%3Amyserver.com?register=0 would be ideal.

Have you considered any alternatives?

Yes. I've tried to make a custom build (offered to provide it back to Element, but with no luck).

Additional context

That feels an important thing for self-hosted servers.

t3chguy commented 11 months ago

with prefilled server

https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/5469

alexander-potemkin commented 11 months ago

I believe it's rather https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/pull/17824, but anyway - they are both for the web, which can be nicely fine-tuned via config file, as opposed to iOS & Android, which makes me belive it's more important on the mobile platforms.

t3chguy commented 11 months ago

@alexander-potemkin that is a pull request which fixes the issue I linked...

alexander-potemkin commented 11 months ago

@t3chguy , thank you. Is it correct, that the fix is for web app only, and it won't affect iOS & Android, Desktop?

t3chguy commented 11 months ago

@alexander-potemkin it will affect Desktop too. Element Desktop = Element Web + Electron + Seshat + Keytar

alexander-potemkin commented 11 months ago

@t3chguy thanks, I understand. My main concern are mobiles - Android & iOS specifically. As they are locked by app store owners and making custom build is troublesome, doesn’t seem to be of any interest from Element mobile team, unfortunately.

t3chguy commented 11 months ago

I suggest making issues on the mobile repos, they don't tend to keep an eye on element-meta as far as I can see

alexander-potemkin commented 11 months ago

Yeah, it seems that way... My other suggestion didn't even get any attention :(

Thanks, opened a separate issue!

element-hq / element-meta