GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 751542
New messages line is ambiguous
Last modified: 2021-06-10 21:41:17 UTC
Created attachment 306172 [details] mockup The conversation history shows a thin black line to indicate where the unread part of a conversation begins. The meaning of the line isn't clear - I didn't find it clear, and a discussion on IRC today revealed that others didn't understand it either. Some people had assumed that the line was a bug. I've attached a mockup which suggests a different visual treatment for the line. We might also want to look at the logic behind the new messages indicator. For me it is displayed even if I have only switched away from Polari for a few seconds. A longer timeout, and pairing the indicator with a timestamp might help.
The explicit new message separator is still subtle. I like it.
Created attachment 307898 [details] [review] chatView: Update new-message indicator The plain line currently used to indicate the start of unread messages in the chat log is not immediately obvious. Update its visuals to clarify the purpose by including a "New Messages" label. I did play around with including the timestamp as well, but left it out for now as it requires more work - it's really odd if there's already a timestamp on the preceding line or nearby ...
Created attachment 307991 [details] [review] chatView: Update new-message indicator Pixel-align the indicator properly
Created attachment 308447 [details] [review] chatView: Update new-message indicator The plain line currently used to indicate the start of unread messages in the chat log is not immediately obvious. Update its visuals to clarify the purpose by including a "New Messages" label.
Created attachment 308560 [details] [review] chatView: Update new-message indicator Some more updates after comments on IRC: - fix vertical alignment - fix right margin - use solid line instead of dashed one - use 'borders' color for line (which is less heavy than 'dim-label')
Created attachment 308584 [details] [review] chatView: Update new-message indicator Fix clip check
Comment on attachment 308584 [details] [review] chatView: Update new-message indicator Attachment 308584 [details] pushed as ff0229e - chatView: Update new-message indicator Pushing this now, but leaving the bug open in case we want to also tweak when to show the indicator as suggested in comment #0.
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