User Settings refinements

[ara4n]

Lots of stuff we could/should add into User Settings. @AmandineLP - thoughts on prioritising this welcome. My current list has options for:

• When opening a room, jump to: a) your last scroll offset, b) your last read message, c) the newest message
• Show read-up-to-marker
• Show read receipt bounce animation
  • Doesn't seem relevant to the modern UI which doesn't have a bounce animation at all
• Don't send read receipts (Option to stop sending read receipts to other users #2527)
• Don't send typing notifs (Ability to disable sending typing notifs #3220)
• Don't send presence
• Tap on avatar inserts their nickname or jumps to their member info page
• Select global default colourscheme
• Enable markdown by default
• Use compact layout (IRC-style dense information) per Compact layout mode for power-users (less vertical whitespace) #109
• Use custom font (especially proportional v. fixed pitch)
• Custom font size (RFE: desktop versions: A means to alter the font themes #2865)
• Always show timestamps (Timestamps should be able to be permanently turned on via settings #58)
• Preload GIFs to speed up viewing
• Autoplay GIFs (Option to autoplay animated GIFs #2433)
• Highlight colour (some people don't like the red)
• Vary timeline width (Make middlepanel width optionally customisable #1371)
• hide all join/parts (option to hide join/parts entirely #916)

3PID management is already tracked by #649.

[juliusv]

👍 for being able to choose a more compact layout.

[uhoreg]

"Vary timeline width" I think is #1371, and "Always show timestamps" is #58.

[andrewgdunn]

Would very much like to request #1371 get attention, lots of screen not being used right now.

[uhoreg]

#3220 should probably also be included in this list

[MohammedNoureldin]

What file(s) responsible for sending presence? I might be able to implement appear offline function.

[ghost]

What about custom font sizes? This ticket is from 2016 - now we almost have 2018 and I think this is a very very important feature as the screen sizes become larger and larger...

[GuillaumeDIDIER]

Any news of the font setting ? Fixed width would be really nice when people (over IRC for instance) send ascii art that get completely broken.

[jryans]

Please ask support questions in #riot-web:matrix.org. If you'd like to report a bug with settings, please file a new issue about it.

[sanmai-NL]

@jryans: please explain how one should understand that this issue isn't the place to report the missing feature, as the opening post lists exactly those.

[jryans]

I agree it's hard to know how a given project uses its issues up front. That's why I added a comment here suggesting a better approach. We don't yet have clear contribution docs about things like this, so it's a bit ad-hoc for now.

This is a large meta-issue of settings improvements to make, listing various options to add. Since your comment "How to remove a profile picture/avatar?" was phrased as a question, I assumed you'd like support with removing an avatar. A meta-issue like this is not a great place for that sort of question.

Even if what you are trying to say is "I would like a button to remove the avatar", that would also be better captured as a separate issue that we can then collect here in the meta-issue (if desired).

In general, I would suggest defaulting to opening a new issue (or asking in #riot-web:matrix.org) in most situations, since it's not always clear which issue something should go in.

[t3chguy]

@sanmai-NL what you want is: #8456

[superboum]

Don't send presence would be very convenient.

[8go]

I just wanted to express my vote for "fixed font" option.

Why? Use case? I use Riot with an admin bot, and like in a terminal, the bot responds with tables, listings, etc. and it would be much more readable with a fixed size font. With the current font everything the bot responds is shifted around as the spaces are smaller. Dumb example, but just imaging the bot responding to a command that does something like a "df -h"

Someone else commented on ASCII art as another example.

It would be so nice to have the ability to change font to a fixed-size font for certain, e.g. admin related, rooms.

If this is the wrong place for this comment/request, please direct me to the right place. Thanks again.

[t3chguy]

The bot should use formatted messages and make a code block which would be rendered in a monospace font for everyone...

Font settings just got added into Labs, which let you specify whatever system font you want.

[8go]

3 times "thank you"

• great idea to use "code block"
• excellent new feature in Settings/Appearance
• impressed by fast response :)

[t3chguy]

Closing as stale, most of the things have either been done or have their own issues