We were apparently not using the ListWidget API for replacing the
content of a widget without removing the whole thing from the DOM and
replacing it.
Unless ListWidget has unexpected bugs, this should have the exact same
result as the previous logic, with much a nicer user experience.
We don't want to rely on browser hash to check if RT is visible
because soon we want to display default_view without any hash
and RT may or may not be visible in that hash.
We were losing scroll position after re-render because there
were not enough rows present in the table to focus back to
the same position. With this commit it is possible now since we
always render with enough rows to do so.
We save the scroll position of the user by keeping the topic
row at the center of the visible scroll container in focus. The
avoids focus being reset to first topic row when recent topics
renders. Thus, this improves the UX of recent topics.
We move compose from being a part of message feed to
being a part of middle column which is a common parent of recent
topics and message feed. This allows us to use a common compose
box for both the views. Fortunately, compose actions were
independent of this change so there weren't any evident
side effects.
Fixes#17543
Since we don't process private messages yet, we don't
need to re-render when we receive a new private message
as it doesn't change any data related to recent_topics.
This reduces the complexity of our dependency graph.
It also makes sub_store.get parallel to message_store.get.
For both you pass in the relevant id to get the
full validated object.
We were loading filters from localstorage after rendering the
filters block which caused the incorrect icons being displayed
for filters.
Since usually recent_topics renders a couple times when it
is loaded directly and the filters were being loaded as part of
show_selected_filters after we rendered recent_topics filters,
it meant the correct filters were being displayed in the
second render.
But, when user loads any other narrow directly when Zulip is loaded,
and opens recent_topics, recent_topics is only rendered once,
hence the bug gets noticed.
Fixes#17496
The scroll position of recent topics table is according to the
element which is in focus.
While this behaviour is correct, when
user clicks on an element in recent topics after scrolling to
a different position, the scroll position is lost as the focus
was not being set on the element. This commit ensures that
we set focus on the element when user clicks on it. Thus, the
scroll position being lost is naturally fixed.
Fixes#17587
Don't focus on search box when user is at end or start of
the table and is using vim keys. This ends up being a
bad UX as once user is inside the search box, vim
navigation keys cannot be used to take user out of
the search box.
TextField is used to allow users to set long stream + topic narrow
names in the urls.
We currently restrict users to only set "all_messages" and
"recent_topics" as narrows.
This commit achieves 3 things:
* Removes recent topics as the default view which loads when
hash is empty.
* Loads default_view when hash is empty.
* Loads default_view on pressing escape key when it is unhandled by
other present UI elements.
NOTE: After this commit loading zulip with an empty hash will
automatically set hash to default_view. Ideally, we'd just display
the default view without a hash, but that involves extra complexity.
One exception is when user is trying to load an overlay directly,
i.e. zulip is loaded with an overlay hash. In this case,
we render recent topics is background irrespective of default_view.
We consider this last detail to be a bug not important enough to block
adding this setting.
When user presses escape but there is no action that recent topics
can perform on it, it returns false.
The final state of focus is the focus on topics table. If the focus
is on table and not on RT search or filters, we return false to
indicate that the key was unhandled by recent topics.
This will allow escape to take user to another view if recent topics
is not the default view.
Tim Abbott
Abhijeet Prasad Bodas
Aman Agrawal
Anders Kaseorg
Steve Howell
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