Ticket UUID: | 6a935e163deb5ab005bdb0f2db3c77b1142f51e6 | |||
Title: | Room List hard to parse, doesn't follow typical tree structure | |||
Status: | Open | Type: | Bug | |
Severity: | Minor | Priority: | High | |
Subsystem: | Discord | Resolution: | Works_As_Designed | |
Last Modified: | 2020-09-05 14:33:34 | |||
Version Found In: | ||||
colemickens — 2020-03-11 04:01:34 The left-hand server/room list menu is the only thing I struggle with in Ripcord. It does not follow my visual expectations for a tree structure and it is very hard for my head to parse when a category's children appear to the left of the item that it belongs to. I've added a screenshot to show. It's not visually ideal, and the effect is more dramatic with the actual server room's list expanded too... but hopefully it helps demonstrate what I'm talking about a little bit. Here's an example of my Ripcord, and a very hacky quick alternative, which, to me, makes it much easier to quickly parse the left list and understand what's going on: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CmcJAqhFDwBsyXBf9 | ||||
cancel — 2020-03-11 04:49:54 Yeah. So, the reason it's not a generic tree structure with pure indenting is to save on horizontal space. Most people don't have the sidebar that wide. Actually, I keep mine fairly narrow, in order to save on screen space. You'll notice that the left of the window, in your edited in screenshot, is 90% empty wasted space. I don't find the tradeoff worth it to add indentation for every logical level of nesting. The top-level indentation with the Discord and Slack section has the most visually misleading part of the sidebar, because there's no depth where the upper level contains the lower level. I could probably design it better, and I probably should. But there is not much chance I would change it to work like your screenshot, with all of the empty wasted space. It's just not worth it, to me. Maybe in the future I can add more options for things like that. Right now, I have to finish implementing the basic Slack features before I can move on to that stuff. | ||||
mgambrell — 2020-03-19 08:24:06 I have the same problem. I proposed more compact solutions, including:
(for instance, these would be underneath 'favorites' and before 'slack' in your image
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egg — 2020-05-04 16:54:00 +1 It's perfect except for this. |