moment/TODO.md

TODO

• keep scrollbars auto behavior?

• improve auto completion delegate

• refresh server list button

• server list sorting method / explain what the % number is (stability)

• global presence control

• fix local unread counters order

• publish room or alias control

• open context menus centered on touch screens

• auto-idle for Windows and OSX

• status based on process detection

Refactoring

• General change/upload avatar component for account and room settings
• Refactor EventList.qml
• Implement different delegate for different types of events in QML, instead
  of having only one doing everything with untranslatable content texts
  from Python

Issues

• Replying to one of our own message that's currently only a local echo
  results in a reply to an empty ID

• Bottom focus line for an HTextArea inside a ScrollView is invisible,
  put the background on ScrollView instead?

• Don't send typing notification when switching to a room where the composer
  has preloaded text

• When calling Backend.update_room_read_marker() for a recent message,
  the marker will only be updated for accounts that have already received
  it (server lag)

• Jumping between accounts (clicking in account bar or alt+(Shift+)N) is
  laggy with hundreds of rooms in between

• Drag-scrolling in room pane a tiny bit activates the delegates

• Catch server 5xx errors when sending message and retry

• Handle cases where a known account's access token is invalid

• If an account is gone from the user's config, discard UI state last page

• After forgetting a room, it comes back because of the "you left" event

• code, mentions and links in quote ("> http://example.com") aren't properly
  colored in room delegate "last message" subtitle

• Timer and Animation are bound to framerate

• Can't use QQmlApplicationEngine, problem with QApplication?
  See https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-50992

• HTML

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  not rendered

• Pausing uploads doesn't work well, servers ends up dropping the connection
  (no real solution possible?)

Interface

• Colorize "@room" in messages
  opening a page or popup

• Device IP geolocation

• Can rooms but left with a reason?

• When responding to a message, highlight that message in the timeline

• Highlight timeline messages that mentions our user

• Add room members loading indicator, similar to the "Loading past messages..."

• Long-press-drag to select multiple messages on touch

• Drag to select multiple messages on non-touch

• Make clicking on user/room mentions open relevant UI instead of matrix.to
  URL in browser

• Missing room settings:

  • Set whether to publish this room in the server room directory
  • Set history visibility
  • Set aliases
  • Setup permissions
  • Unban members
  • Set flair (which community this room belongs to)

• Linkify URLs in topic text areas

• Use a loader for items not in view for the HTabContainer's SwipeView

• Make "Cancel" buttons consistent, and able to cancel running Backend
  coroutines. Set disabledWhileLoading to false for all "OK" buttons where
  it makes sense.

• Remember the previously focused item in page for ctrl+tab

• https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-smoothedanimation.html for progress bars

• Improve when HDrawer should collapse when the ui is zoomed

• Make room invite/left banner buttons look better

• Choose a better easing types for animations

• In messages, remove the HTML lists excess left margin

• Improve UI for very small window heights

• In room creation, click avatar to set the future room's avatar

• In join room page, show the matching room's avatar when typing

• In direct chat page, show the matching user's avatar when typing

• Combine events so they take less space

  • After combining is implemented,
    no need to hide profile changes by default anymore

• Animate DayBreak apparition

• Device settings

• Proparly formatted rich replies

• Messages editing

• Code highlighting

• Adapt shortcuts flicking speed to font size

• Accept drag and drop to upload files or set a new avatar

• Improve room tooltips, e.g. show last messages

• Warn user when connection is lost or 429s happen

• "Rejoin" LeftBanner button if room is public

• Daybreak color

• Conversation breaks: show time of first new msg after break instead of big
  blank space

• MainPane:

  • Animate when logging out last account and sidepane turns invisible

• Implement Register/Reset pages

• Theming

  • Use a standard file format
  • icons.preferredPack: accept multiple values
  • Find icon packs in user data dir
  • See Text.fontSizeMode

• Settings page

• Notifications

• Better <pre>

• Replace the rubbish default Qt filepicker on Linux

Media-related

• UI for download progress (using Transfer like for uploads)

• Add upload keybindings (close failed upload, pause, resume)

• Handle errors when setting an avatar

• Show a reason or HTTP error code for thumbnails that fail to load

• Support m.file thumbnails

• Generate video thumbnails

• Display GIF static thumbnails while the real GIF is loading

• Audio/video player

  • Can GIFs use it?

• EventLink for client-side URL previews

  • Special UI for matrix.to URLs

• Prevent using upload keybindings in rooms where user doesn't have permission
  to upload

Backend

• Better config file format

• Prevent starting multiple client instances, causes problems with E2E DB

• Check if username exists on login screen

• Soft logouts

• Logout previous session when adding an account that's already connected

• Cache and restore profiles, room events and client states

• Properly handle direct chats

• Live-reloading accounts.json

• E2E

  • SAS verification
  • Request room keys from own other devices
  • Provide help when undecryptable messages occur, including:
    • Trigger nio.AsyncClient.request_room_key
    • Option to export-logout-login-import to fix one-time key problems
  • Cross-signing

• Display read receipts on events (who/how many people have read an event)

• Fully read markers

• Methods of signing in that aren't handled yet:

  • m.login.password alternate logins methods:
    • m.id.thirdparty
    • m.id.phone
  • m.login.recaptcha (need browser, just use fallback?)
  • m.login.email.identity
  • m.login.msisdn (phone)
  • m.login.dummy
  • Web page fallback

Nio contributions

• Streaming download & decrypt

• Running blocking DB function calls in executor (WIP)

• Dedicated error for invalid password on key import

• RoomMessageMedia and RoomAvatarEvent info attributes

• Handle m.room.aliases events

• Left room events after client reboot

• Previewing room without joining

Distribution and dependencies

• Use Qt 5.14 for AppImage

• Add AppImage & Flatpak metadata file

• Publish on Flathub and AppImageHub

• Update to Mistune v2.0 when released

Notable changes for future Qt version upgrade

Qt 5.13

• Added SplitView
• Added cache property to icon

Qt 5.14

• Applications can now opt-in to use non-integer scale factors.
  Use QGuiApplication::highDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy.

• Added qmlRegisterSingletonInstance function.
  This allows to expose a QObject as a singleton to QML, without having to
  create a factory function as required by qmlRegisterSingletonType.
  It is meant as a type safe replacement of setContextProperty.

• Added qmlRegisterAnonymousType as a replacement for qmlRegisterType.
  It allows to specify the URI and major version for better tooling support.

• qmllint gained an experimental -U option. If run with it, it warns about
  about accesses to unqualified identifiers

• Text and TextEdit now support Markdown format
  (CommonMark and GitHub dialects) as an alternative to HTML.
  Includes the GitHub checklist extension, such that you can click to toggle
  checkboxes in a TextEdit.

• TextEdit uses an I-beam cursor by default, and a pointing-hand cursor when
  hovering a checkbox or a link

• Added WheelHandler, an Event Handler for the mouse wheel, and optionally
  for emulated mouse wheel events coming from a trackpad.

  • Rewrite HKineticScrollingDisabler with it

• Added BoundaryRule in Qt.labs.animation: a PropertyValueInterceptor that
  restricts the range of values a numeric property can have, applies
  "resistance" when the value is overshooting, and provides the ability to
  animate it back within range. It's particularly useful in combination with
  WheelHandler, to provide similar physics as Flickable has.

• Image and BorderImage now have the same currentFrame and frameCount
  properties that AnimatedImage has; this allows choosing an individual icon
  from an .ICO file that contains multiple icons, for example.
  In the future it's intended to support other multi-page formats such as
  PDF, TIFF and WEBP.

• Binding.restoreMode: This property can be used to describe if and how the
  original value should be restored when the binding is disabled.

Qt 5.15

• Introduced inline components
  (ability to declare multiple QML components in the same file)

• Introduced required properties

• Added a declarative way of registering types to QML

• Added support for the Nullish Coalescing Operator (??)

• Added qmlformat tool which automatically formats any QML file according to
  the QML Coding Conventions.

• Added cursorShape property to pointer handlers. Most pointer handlers
  (e.g. DragHandler) will change the cursor when the active state is true.
  HoverHandler will change it when the mouse is hovering over the Item that
  contains the HoverHandler.

• Added selectTextByMouse property to ComboBox.

• Technology Preview: Support for running Qt Quick (2D) on top of
  Direct3D, Metal and Vulkan