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Aggregations, message editing, reactions
Are these features planned? What's needed? Are there already issues for them?
They are being worked on; experimental support in the library is already there, and some initial things (either reactions or message editing - whichever comes easier) will be in Quaternion soon (c)
For me, Quaternion shows that there were reactions, but not what those reactions were:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/192271/103240169-75a22b80-4947-11eb-8a68-f016196b4df6.png
mowa219-gjp4-8570p% date ; uname -v
Mon 28 Dec 2020 19:59:56 GMT
FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #74 r368589: Sun Dec 13 07:55:46 GMT 2020 root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC-NODEBUG
mowa219-gjp4-8570p% pkg query '%o %v %R' quaternion
net-im/quaternion 0.0.9.5.b1 FreeBSD
mowa219-gjp4-8570p%
@grahamperrin this is because the font doesn't have the glyph for the reaction. Unfortunately, Quaternion doesn't allow to pick a different font for reactions (such as Noto Emoji) and default fonts on most platforms (Arial/Helvetica and such) don't have a lot of emoji glyphs.
For me, Quaternion shows that there were reactions, but not what those reactions were:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/192271/103240169-75a22b80-4947-11eb-8a68-f016196b4df6.png
Same here with newest quaternion and newest Quotient. When will this be fixed?
I'm exactly one developer working on Quaternion as an unpaid, spare time project. So the answer to "when" will invariably be - when you submit a pull request, or when I get to it.
Now if we get to technical things - the problem is mainly due to:
- Apparent unavailability of emoji characters in your font, as mentioned above.
- Inability of Qt to get out of stalemate and pick a different font for emojis: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-85744
A font with at least fallback (black-and-white) emoji characters will help with (1). I don't know what can help with (2) - engaging with The Qt Project doesn't seem to help. I'm not very fond of working it around and forcing the font on emoji characters on Quaternion side, but PRs are welcome.