nextcloud-libraries
NC25: All the conversations are in bold in the left panel, no matter if they contain unread messages
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Steps to reproduce
Open the Talk Web UI and check the conversations list
Expected behaviour
In Nextcloud 24 the conversations listed in the left panel in bold are those with new messages. This behaviour should be the same in Nextcloud 25.
Actual behaviour
In Nextcloud 25 (version installed on c.nc.com) all the conversation are in bold, no matter if they contain unread messages. I think this is confusing for the user.
Talk app
c.nc.com
Browser
Browser log
Server configuration
c.nc.com
Server log (data/nextcloud.log)
This is because with the latest design decision it was chosen to make all titles bold in the app navigation.
I also agree that it heavily impacts the usability of the conversation list, so maybe it can be reconsidered? We also got a lot of internal comments regarding this.
cc @jancborchardt @nimishavijay
So I am also not entirely sure about this. But I also think this might just be historical for us. In many popular applications (like Apple Mail, Discord, WhatsApp), bolding is used to give structure, not an indicator for something being unread, cause they have actual indicators for that (like we have now).
Unread messages directly to you have, in both Mail and Talk, a prominent blue indicator on the right, just like e.g. Apple Mail.
What do you think @marcoambrosini @nimishavijay?
In many popular applications (like Apple Mail, Discord, WhatsApp), bolding is used to give structure, not an indicator for something being unread
Just for the record, Thunderbird does use bold for subjects of unread emails and folders with unread emails.
Also, would we ensure the same behavior in the mobile apps (didn't install talk-android 15 yet)?
this is a deliberate decision @pmarini-nc and although I didn't quite agree at the beginning I kind of like it now because of the structure that it gives to the list, as @jancborchardt mentions. That said, I don't have strong feelings about this and I'm fine either way. One thing that becomes very apparent now though is that our counters are not visible enough, especially the regular and the team mention ones
Just for the record, Thunderbird does use bold for subjects of unread emails and folders with unread emails.
This strategy seems to have been dropped in the new UI they're about to launch
it seems that the boldening situation has improved in the latest releases at least it doesn't disturb me as much as it used to
close ?
Given that @PVince81 asked for the issue to be closed on Nov 4th and @pmarini-nc (the original author) reacted with thumbs up, I'll close the issue. Feel free to reopen if you disagree.
