TODO

Image viewer:
- stop timeline gif on ctrl+o
- open externally in context menu in timeline thumbnail
- hflickable support kinetic scrolling disabler and speed/decel settings
- keyboard controls
clipboard preview doesn't update when copied image changes until second time
Avatar tooltip can get displayed in front of presence menu
Use loading cursorShape
Increase keyboard page scroll speed
global presence control
fix members not synced bug
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
On startup, if a room's last event is a membership change,
it won't be visible in timeline no matter what the user config is
There are rooms without messages to show as last message subtitle after
initial sync
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
not rendered
Pausing uploads doesn't work well, servers ends up dropping the connection
(no real solution possible?)

Interface

Colorize "@room" in messages
Show scrollbars for a few seconds if there's content to scroll on when
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
- Change members power level
- 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
Make HListView scrollbars more visible
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
Server selection
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
Opening files with keyboard
Better <pre>
Replace the rubbish default filepicker on Linux

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

Use new nio AsyncClient.restore_login()
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.oauth2
- m.login.email.identity
- m.login.msisdn (phone)
- m.login.sso + m.login.token
- 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

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TODO

Refactoring

Issues

Interface

Media-related

Backend

Nio contributions

Distribution and dependencies

Notable changes for future Qt version upgrade

Qt 5.13

Qt 5.14

Qt 5.15

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