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a modern Tox client for the GNU/Linux desktop
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Right Justify messages from contacts #473

Open physkets opened 5 years ago

physkets commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Currently, all the conversation is left-justified. This makes differentiating messages a bit hard; the colours on the names of the contact helps, but it would be nice if the two also are differently justified. Check out qTox. They do it this way.

Describe the solution you'd like

The users messages can be left-justified, and the contact's messages right-justified. Then there will be two ways to deal with time-stamps & 'message received' tick-marks. The can be correspondingly right, and left justified, or, have space reserved on the right side: a column for these two things.

Additional context

I don't know for sure if it will be better, but do consider it, if you like it, or think it will help make the Ux clearer.

naxuroqa commented 5 years ago

You are right, the message presentation is still very much unfinished.

I'm going to provide some reference screenshots as well as some mockup ideas.

naxuroqa commented 5 years ago

I would then right justify your own message as well as put the bubble arrow on the right side.

Not sure if the bubbles are the best idea. Would probably be best to let the user decide, but that's more work :P .

naxuroqa commented 5 years ago

I think e.g. skype just adds more padding the the left of your own messages and moves the arrow to the other side. Maybe that's an option as well?

naxuroqa commented 5 years ago

This would then look like this:

physkets commented 5 years ago

I think one other thing that leads to clutter in that the profile name and picture is shown for every message. It will look much better, if it is only shown when the sender changes.

physkets commented 5 years ago

The bubbles you introduced in 52a4a666fb90a25c79c6edf137882410cd6f917d are very nice. Do you think it is possible to shift the time-stamp into the bubble, and then have many bubble under one mention of a user's name? i.e., group all consecutive, uninterrupted messages by a person.