Room topic is displayed nowhere

[Ppjet6]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Room topic (<subject/>) contains information that may be important to users and it is displayed nowhere on xmpp-web. We use xmpp-web at Joinjabber for general user support and it would be useful for them to be aware of room rules when they join.

Describe the solution you'd like
Not entirely sure where I would like to see this.

The top bar seems already taken by the userlist/avatars, maybe starting from the other side? But that only works on bigger screens?
When joining the room, displayed within the chat?

Describe alternatives you've considered
It seems difficult to add this kind of information to room name. The room description seems to be used outside of the room mostly.
For our very specific use-case at joinjabber, we have common rules for our rooms so there could be a place somewhere in the room list where this is displayed.
Even though all users may not go through this as we also use the invite link guest?join=room.

[nioc]

I think 4 options are possible:

• adding to the rooms list page (easy),
• adding a line in chat message component (medium),
• adding a tool tip when entering the room (medium),
• adding a header like discussed in Display room information within the room #79 (complex).

[Ppjet6]

I am not sure I understand what you mean by "adding to the room list page". This is information that I think should also be available within the room.

EDIT: I thought I was answering to #79 sorry. I guess the best still is that this information be available within the room.

As for the other options, I think any of them would fit my personal requirements but maybe someone more qualified can comment.

[nioc]

I was talking to add room subject to this component (roomS list, sorry for the typo on plural):

[Ppjet6]

I just started gajim for unrelated reasons (not my usual client), and I actually like what they are doing. That is, some kind of tooltip on join inside the chat. It looks ok. What do you think?

[nioc]

Are you talking about the second line in this demo chat on gajim (typo on Subjet... 😆 )?

28/01/2023 | 23:54:47  ‎nico a changé le sujet en Subjet 

If yes, it was my thought saying "adding a line in chat message component (medium)" but I was not thinking to handle subject modification (a little bit more complex).

[Ppjet6]

It looks a bit better in gajim latest :)

For Joinjabber we don't need subject modification in xmpp-web but it would still be a nice addition anyway :)

[nioc]

Yes, it is really better in this one (1.6, I presume?) than in the old 1.3.3 version I use 😆

👍🏻 Ok for this feature:

• add a fake message in array with subject
• maybe add a specific class for styling
• maybe (no promise!), if it is not so complex, handling subject change by listening message with subject but not body neither thread element like the one in the xep:

<message
    from='coven@chat.shakespeare.lit/secondwitch'
    id='5BCE07C5-0729-4353-A6A3-ED9818C9B498'
    to='crone1@shakespeare.lit/desktop'
    type='groupchat'>
  <subject>Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble!</subject>
</message>

[Ppjet6]

For changing the subject, you can also discover whether you have permissions to do so:

• Either you are a moderator, or
• muc#roomconfig_changesubject is set to a truthy value. It's visible in the disco#info of the room, which I assume you do before joining.

[nioc]

I propose to only handle subject changes, not to add UI for changing it from the web chat 😉

[nioc]

I just added a box on top which is always displayed with latest subject and author.
This is a first draft for UI:

May be adding a "dismiss" button for hiding it?

[nioc]

A more complete version with the bulma message component:

Room jid is displayed as title.
The delete button is working for the room.

[Ppjet6]

I'm replying here if it's ok.

The topic and room name appear properly in the chatroom, except that history is pull right after it is displayed and thus it's quickly scroll up, out of sight.

Would it be ok to display it after history has been added to the buffer?

[nioc]

The fact is subject is displayed in a dedicated component (see line 17), not as a messages (which are in the for loop in lines 18~21).

Pulling history after or not will not change this behavior.

I do not think this is a real issue, as users entering in a room should read previous messages and so, subject.
But if your point is about dealing subject changes, this should be handled in another feature request (displayed in a programmatically toast for example).