Instead of deleting and rebuilding #private-container every time its
contents need to be updated, just replace its contents. This
eliminates some scrollbar flashing.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulipchat.com>
Now that we have a scroll container for the PM list,
it doesn't make much sense to limit the number to
five.
We may resurrect this feature if "more conversations"
actually fetches more conversations, but it doesn't
currently.
We also may soon make it easy to limit PMs to just
unread messages, which will make the max-5 feature
perhaps less necessary, and we don't want to make
the UI overly complicated.
We have this strange business requirement that the
blue-ish highlights for the current PM go into the
left gutter and all the way to the right edge.
We also have markup that treats the list of PMs
as a list inside the list item for the "Private
messages", which makes sense logically.
Before this change, the padding was done for the
outer top-left `ul`, but that caused the inner PM
rows not to have that padding when you hovered them.
Now we pad each individual list item and/or inner
list item or div.
Fixes#11879.
We now use 10px to the left of major elements in
left sidebar.
And we then explicitly use 19px for the following:
icons in top left
indent for (more conversations)
stream hashtag icons
stream lock icons
We also kill off 2px of gutter that was caused
by whitespace in the HTML (and was slightly messing
up alignment of names beneath "Private messages").
Finally, we make the topic indent a bit more explicit.
The topic-sidebar-arrow chevron never shows
here--it was just cargo-culted code from
the topic lists.
It's also a landmine--we don't want to
accidentally build a topic-related sidebar
menu for PMs.
We could arguably just use zero-unreads everywhere,
but we definitely don't want zero-topic-unreads
inside our PM list.
I prefer to just have these two concepts:
zero-pm-unreads
zero-topic-unreads
And it's super easy to share CSS properties for both.
This is mostly adding markup, calling some convenient
functions in buddy_data.js, and adjusting CSS.
To make the circles update dynamically, I mostly
orchestrate this though activity.js for now. It's
possible we'll want to adjust that eventually to
happen through something like a `presence_events`
dispatcher, but that's essentially what
a good part of `activity.js` does now.
This fixes a longstanding UI issue when you have way too many recent
private message conversations, as you can now scroll down the list to
find what you're looking for.
Fixes#5384.
When the list of recipients of a group private message conversation is
truncated due to being long in the "Private messages" area, we didn't
provide easy access to the full list of people. Fix this by adding a
title attribute for the area.
Fixes#10978.
Some of the work here was done Tomasz Kolek.
When we click on "more conversations" in "Private Messages,"
we call it being "zoomed in." Before this change, when
new PMs arrived, we would rebuild the list and zoom out
again. Now we track the zoomed_in state with a variable.
Also, if you are zoomed in and switch from one PM narrow
to another, we also keep you zoomed in.
This fix also removes some extraneous/redundant code.
Fixes: #2561
Like the Stream Subject lists, Private messages are now shown
when the user clicks on the "Private message" link. User can drill in
to get more than 5 conversations. Selecting PMs from the user or group
PM lists on the right sidebar also opens the list & highlights the
selected conversation.
[Edited by tabbott@mit.edu to fix some small bugs.]
Anders Kaseorg
Steve Howell
Challa Venkata Raghava Reddy
Tim Abbott
Aditya Bansal
Steve Howell
Umair Khan
Kara McNair