Account Sidebar: Further Steps

[Simon-Laux]

• Multi Account Notifications #3680 (assigned to @Simon-Laux for now)
• context menu backdrop Native UX or web UX for the context menu #3643 (@adzialocha)
  • this will solve the small ux bug that you can still trigger the hover menu with your mouse when a context menu is active
• Remove Sidebar menu #3668
• Account Sidebar: No window titlebar on MacOS #3670
• Refactor to remove possible races when switching account in message list / chatstore #3675
• cursor pointer for account items (@adzialocha)
• Flickering issue when hovering over account switch avatar #3681 (@adzialocha)

Beyond 1.44

• on open: scroll currently active account into view
  improvement: scroll selected account into view #4137
• core: set sync for single accounts feat: disable background io per account, available apis in rust and jsonrpc deltachat-core-rust#5314
• core: mute accounts? (notification is handled by ui so this would probably just store the setting/option and if we allow time based then revert once the mute time is over?) -> rather "ui.*" setting
• core: Drag and Drop to reorder accounts, needs core support to store position somehow
• indicators on top and bottom if there are unread accounts out of screen
  Related: feat: make unread accounts position: sticky #4536
• core: ensure there are core events for all cases where the account list is updated to remove the window.__updateAccountListSidebar hack
• Theming questions: should we make the sidebar themeable? should we allow each account to have it's own theme? some previous discussion can be found In: The account management sidebar does not follow colour scheme #3794

nice to have

• Find an even better background image for account deletion

[farooqkz]

Regarding, this:

Drag and Drop to reorder accounts, needs core support to store position somehow

Doesn't core already support some mechanism of saving data no matter what?

[Simon-Laux]

Doesn't core already support some mechanism of saving data no matter what?

there are custom ui.* config keys per account, but not per account manager, yet. Also this needs some thinking about how to store positions smartly to not introduce bug where accounts are hidden/missing, maybe seeking of priority number for each account or if we store an order array, then only take it as suggestion and display missing accounts at the end or sth like that.

[g6094199]

[v1.45.1] - 2024-06-04 Added Added a Small Screen Mode, when you rezise the window to be small it will only show the chatlist with account sidebar or the Chat View with a back button.

he,

this feature is annoying on desktop installations (Linux in my case). I always use DC not in full screen mode but as a small bar on the side of the screen on any screen i use (14 to 24"). i think it is mostly used like this ("classical use")?
you feature forces me to have a click orgy all the time. this back arrow is a time waster. While I understand the benefits of using this on tiny mobile devices, on large screens this is a nogo.

also you waste a lot of space with a profile change/adding bar. have you ever ask how may users use one or more profiles (i´m using DC for 5 or more years and never thought of a 2nd profile)? and even when, how much profile swaps are done within an hour to allow this waste of space (my guess: not enough)?
this should be moved somewhere else.

my request is: can we have the original behavior back as optional feature? I´d like to have a scrollable account sidebar, cause i know/can guess the right chat even its cut off.

thanks!

[Simon-Laux]

I could agree an experimental setting to hide account sidebar and one to disable small screen mode.

why experimental:

• hide account sidebar -> the real solution would be a new design where this list is collapsible and has shortcuts
• disable small screen mode -> unless Make ChatView/ChatList resizable in x axes #633 is implemented the cut of chatlist is nothing we want to ship by default, I think small screen mode is what most users want.