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Galene interface

Open tonnick opened this issue 7 months ago • 3 comments

Hello team ! Galene is a really good tool. But I have a recurrent fedback from users with who I use it : the interface is not easy to manage. Main feedback are :

  • admin buttons are missing. using the /command is not easy for most of people
  • screen grid is not very responsive.
  • speaker is not highlighted.

Do you think this points could be easily improved / customized ? Anybody already tried to customize interface ?

thx !

tonnick avatar Apr 23 '25 12:04 tonnick

Yes, the UI needs improving. The trouble is that while the server-side code is pretty clean, the web UI has grown organically, and it needs a complete rewrite before it is easily hackable.

admin buttons are missing. using the /command is not easy for most of people

There is a menu for administrative actions: click on the username of a person in the left-side menu, or double-click on a message in the chat.

I agree that it is not easily discoverable, and needs improving.

screen grid is not very responsive.

I need help with that.

speaker is not highlighted.

Select « activity detection » in the side menu.

Anybody already tried to customize interface ?

Pyrite https://github.com/garage44/pyrite was a complete rewrite of the web UI of Galene, but the project has been abandoned.

jech avatar Apr 28 '25 18:04 jech

thx a lot for your feedback. hopefully I'd have enough knowledge for grid's help, but I have not :( I'll try other options I did not know. note as well that on mobile, the chat is no longer visible. the icon to open it is hidden. is it normal ?

tonnick avatar Apr 29 '25 07:04 tonnick

note as well that on mobile, the chat is no longer visible. the icon to open it is hidden. is it normal ?

This was fixed in Galene 0.96.3 (commit 43de0cd559901b52ef6e2306d42ab828b0bad984).

jech avatar May 15 '25 17:05 jech