UI: don't use a separate ListView for active conversations

[mrDoctorWho]

Here's my UI suggestion.

Put current conversations and roster in a signle list view, separated by a horizontal line.

[horazont]

I thought about merging the two lists a while back, but I’m not convinced that’s a good UI:

1. I’d like to have open conversations easily accessible, without filtering or scrolling through the roster.
2. I definitely not want to sort by most-recent-activity (most certainly not by default), because that allows third-parties to modify the sort order, leading to annoying (albeit probably harmless) clickjacking (think you’re clicking on a roster item to start a conversation and then the list re-sorts due to a new message from somebody).

This proposal here is a bit more appealing because it would simply add a group of conversations to the top of the contact list, without re-ordering the existing contact list. I don’t really like that because it mixes two very different things. The interaction with filters would have to be defined, as well as with possibly different sort orders.

I can be convinced. Let the flame begin.

[mrDoctorWho]

I definitely not want to sort by most-recent-activity (most certainly not by default), because that allows third-parties to modify the sort order, leading to annoying (albeit probably harmless) clickjacking (think you’re clicking on a roster item to start a conversation and then the list re-sorts due to a new message from somebody).

Sure. I should have mentioned that, I think you just need to create new items (just in GUI) in roster, so it would not require you to mess with ordering.

[horazont]

Care to test the current master branch? I made some adjustments (video).