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Allow the user to deselect conversations #1784

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laurencebgood opened this issue Nov 16, 2017 · 18 comments
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Allow the user to deselect conversations #1784

laurencebgood opened this issue Nov 16, 2017 · 18 comments

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@laurencebgood
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Feature Request: allow the user to deselect conversations

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When the client is first started, no conversation is selected and the client displays "Select a contact or group to start chatting". However, once the user selects a contact or group, there is no way to get back to this state, only change between different contacts or groups.

When the client is foregrounded, any unread messages in the chat that is selected will be marked as read, so it would be helpful to have no conversation selected, so that messages are not inadvertently marked as read when quickly moving between windows or applications.

@laurencebgood laurencebgood changed the title Fe Allow the user to deselect conversations Nov 16, 2017
@leafcutterant
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This would also be an anti-shoulder surfing feature, so that you don't have to expose a conversation of yours just to open Signal.

Idea: deselect conversations by clicking the "Signal" rectangle in the top left corner, and by right-clicking the active contact and having a context menu item.

@laurencebgood
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laurencebgood commented Nov 16, 2017 via email

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@deutrino
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See also #768, which proposes to not mark messages read in a focused conversation when the user is idle.

@keynlotepan
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I vote for this feature, too. The current behaviour makes me fear to overlook new messages (on my mobile while my desktop app is active too and consumes them). Possible key might also be ctrl-click, according to deselecting in file manager. Thanks.

@laurencebgood
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As more of my friends and other contacts adopt Signal Desktop, the lack of this is starting to drive me crazy. On many occasions, messages I've sent are marked as having been seen very quickly, but then never seen by the person I sent them to. When I mention this to them much later, they realize it's because I was the last person they spoke to on desktop. It's very frustrating.

@mjog
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mjog commented Aug 19, 2019

The only work around for this at the moment is to close Signal, then re-open it.

@lakomyt
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lakomyt commented Jan 20, 2021

That feature would be awesome, I switched from Telegram which has it, you can deselect by clicking escape.

@tribut
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tribut commented Jan 20, 2021

This has been possible for a while using the (somewhat hard to memorize) shortcut Ctrl + Shift + C.

@laurencebgood
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Wow Ctrl + Shift + C works but is gonna be hard to remember and seems totally undocumented, and undiscoverable. Woul d really like Escape as many many other chat apps use that.

@keynlotepan
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It's not undocumented (in my German version v1.39.6).
It's listed as Hilfe/Tastaturbefehle anzeigen/Aktuelle Unterhaltung schließen (help/show shortcuts/close current conversation).
From my side the issue could be closed (or renamed/reopened as "close conversations with a more intuitive keyboard shortcut" or something like this)

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

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@mjog
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mjog commented Sep 24, 2021

Still an issue with v5.17.2

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@hiqua
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hiqua commented Sep 25, 2021

See #1784 (comment), it's now implemented.

@mjog
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mjog commented Sep 26, 2021

I can't remember that shortcut and I can't use the mouse to do it, so it's not yet implemented.

@laurencebgood
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@josh-signal sorry to do this here, but the referenced issue #5541 is locked: is there any possibility that the community forum's emails will be fixed so they are no longer marked as spam by eg gmail?

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I'll ask to see if there's anything we can do on our end, can you also please email support@signal.org with this report?

@awaitlink
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@josh-signal The issue of emails from Signal Community being marked as spam is also already reported in this topic.

@laurencebgood
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@josh-signal happy to email if you'd like, but the issue is very thoroughly discussed in the topic @u32i64 links in the comment above. It's been going on for about a year and it makes using the forums quite frustrating! Someone at Signal needs to work with Communiteq on this, unfortunately :/

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