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Room header buttons mix global and room-specific functionality #17430

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chagai95 opened this issue May 21, 2021 · 1 comment
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Room header buttons mix global and room-specific functionality #17430

chagai95 opened this issue May 21, 2021 · 1 comment

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chagai95 commented May 21, 2021

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It's not logical to have both of these in the same place - entangled in the same area. This causes confusion and users do not know where to look for things.

The video and audio call buttons are room specific just like the info button and partially the search button (also the hide widget and message pinning) this gives the user the feeling that also the notifications bell button is room specific.

The most important fact though is the search all messages, this is very well hidden and has to be navigated to by going to by going to a room (yes I know users are 99% of the time in a room, but there are some cases where they are not e.g. #/home) and then switching from "This Room" to "All Rooms" which basically renders this useless for normal users.

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Suggestions:

  1. Replace the filter room with a general search which will also filter rooms.
  2. add a search all messages button in #/home

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and replace the "Explore rooms" button with a home button (this will also make the web logic more similar to mobile)

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  1. The general search could be placed above the other room specific icons, which will also make room for other future non room specific functionality (for example a calendar), this will also solve where to put the Notifications bell button.

This is how Telegram does it:

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If you think I'm wrong and this is not a bug I'll move this to feature request, but it seems like a bug to me...

@robintown robintown changed the title Room Specific functionality VS General functionality Room header buttons mix global and room-specific functionality May 17, 2022
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t3chguy commented Apr 27, 2023

Closing in favour of #20614

@t3chguy t3chguy closed this as completed Apr 27, 2023
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