Input is hidden in rooms with one participant
jadyndev opened this issue · 4 comments
Describe the bug
The text input is hidden in rooms with exactly one participant.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Create a room with just yourself
- Enter the chat
- Convert it into a DM (
/converttodm)
Expected behavior
The input seems to exist, it is shown briefly when entering the chat from the menu and there is a blank area at the bottom where the input would be.
Screenshots
Smartphone:
- Device: OnePlus Nord 2
- OS: Oxygen OS 13.0
Additional context
- App version: 1.6.5.sc71 [40101212] (F-b98153c4)
- Store: F-Droid
- Related labs settings: rich text editor is enabled
Upstream relevance
unknown
Apparently, Element assumes you created a DM using invite-by-mail if no users are currently invited to the DM and only one user is in it: 94675b9
- in which case it makes sense to prevent you from writing messages that nobody will read.
What's the benefit of marking a one-person chat as DM? 🤔
Anyway, sounds like a "misuse" of the DM flag - which isn't bad per say, but that makes this bug not a high-priority to fix.
Element Desktop doesn't show this behavior, which is a bit inconsistent.
I'm using such a room to share files and text between multiple devices, it's not the best solution but I have some kind of matrix client pretty much everywhere.
I wouldn't consider this a misuse of the direct flag, as the specification states:
This does not restrict the chat to being between exactly two people [...]
Client Server API 11.25
I'm using such a room to share files and text between multiple devices, it's not the best solution but I have some kind of matrix client pretty much everywhere.
Doesn't explain to me the benefit of flagging it as "direct" vs not doing so, at least in a usual SchildiChat-setup where you have all chats in one list instead of separate DMs in the overview.
Obviously it's still a bug :)
> > I'm using such a room to share files and text between multiple devices, it's not the best solution but I have some kind of matrix client pretty much everywhere.
Doesn't explain to me the benefit of flagging it as "direct" vs not doing so, at least in a usual SchildiChat-setup where you have all chats in one list instead of separate DMs in the overview. Obviously it's still a bug :)
For me the is the ability to silence notifications of groups and allow for chats.