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A glossy Matrix collaboration client for Android
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Add configuration which images should be downloaded automatically #2365

Open krombel opened 6 years ago

krombel commented 6 years ago

You might want to have the ability to disable automatic image loading to reduce data consumption.

This was mentioned by Lukas in #riot-android:matrix.org

ma1uta commented 6 years ago

I think it would be better to have a setting "picture loading" with three options:

Additionally you can tap on the message with image or sticker to load it.

Luraktinus commented 6 years ago

such an option would drastically reduce my sync time.

@ma1uta , don't forget the community images and the profile pictures

ma1uta commented 6 years ago

Oh, sure.

There are too many options, so I suggest to have this setting with checkboxes:

And each user can choose what should be autoloaded.