Compact mode and bubble mode design notes
I was talking about some touchups of compact+bubble mode once in the Matrix channel and completely forgot to open an issue here about it.
Compact mode
Changes as text:
- timestamp of subsequent messages appears on hover at the left under the avatar, centered with the text (Or perhaps always display those, instead of only on hover?)
- the message highlight now spans the whole screen, instead of just stopping before the avatar
- The quick actions have been moved further to the left. It was intended as Right edge -> small spacing -> jump to latest button -> small spacing -> quick actions
I am not much of a bubble mode user. I personally don't have anything big to object there too, except for two.
- On very short messages, the extended-date-tooltip (which fires almost instantly when hovering over it) overlaps the quick actions.
- Subsequent messages don't show a date. Was the second message here also sent at 15:03? At 20:04? Who knows!
For 1), placing the date into the lower right of the Bubble like Telegram and Element do, would probably fix it. Alternatively, one can probably just increase the time it takes for the tooltip to fire so that one doesn't accidentally temporarily obscure the reactions when trying to click them. Or both.
For 2), those could also be placed into the lower right corner. I have no idea how Telegram and Element do it here, suggestions from bubble-mode users would be welcome.
Worth noting here, is that for Android hover events don't fire (to my knowledge at least). This means that quick actions, the extended date tooltip, hover highlight and other things that rely on it aren't shown there at all. I don't think this causes any issues, but wanted to mention it here nonetheless.
Any thoughts (CC @teams/vdg )?