Chatview column layout in call

When in a call, the chatview shows as a row at the bottom of the screen.

When writing short responses, the information in the chatview quickly can't be seen unless one scrolls.

As screens are wider than taller, better use of screen real estate could be found by having the chatview as a column; hence, can the chatview layout please be shown as a column (or have an option to do so if the current view is required)?

Other programs have the chatview as a column and it seems to provide for a better UX.

What do you think?

Thank you

added SprintTo review label

https://review.jami.net/c/jami-client-qt/+/20159

mentioned in commit a2a263c6

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closed

mentioned in issue #657 (closed)

If the label is too long, it should have an ellipsis. Please see red underline in the images below.

jami-client-qt Verzió: 202202012243

Seems to work correctly in the English locale; however, doesn't work correctly for the hu (magyar - Hungarian) locale. Perhaps the length of the string is taken from the English source string, not the string which is being shown?

Are you able to reproduce? and please fix?

Thank you

reopened

Not related to this option

closed

The options in the drop down are Bottom and Right.
a) In the future when RTL languages are correctly supported, should Right be Left?
b) Translators may incorrectly translate Right as meaning Correct.
c) In Hungarian, the context of the Right string should not be translated as Jobb but be translated as To the right which is Jobbra. Other languages may have this situation too.

A solution which can work now and into the future could be to change the strings so that:

1. Right is changed to Vertical
2. Bottom is changed to Horizontal

Should this issue be re-opened? a new issue created? or something else?

What do you think?

Thank you

Another option would be to enable the chatview to be located in 2 additional locations, i.e. Left and Top.

Sorry for the noise, the optimal solution seems to be:

• Horizontal view
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language/Search?&searchTerm=horizontal%20view&langID=382&Source=true&productid=0
• Vertical view
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language/Search?&searchTerm=vertical%20view&langID=382&Source=true&productid=0
  https://transvision.mozfr.org/?recherche=Vertical+View&repo=gecko_strings&sourcelocale=en-US&locale=hu&search_type=strings

For consistency with the Jami program, the v is in lowercase.

Thank you once again

Should the string Chatview's position in calls be changed to Layout?

It seems a doubling-up of information as Chatview's position in calls is already under the Chatview heading.

Inspiration taken from Thunderbird, Menu Bar, View, Layout, Vertical View (as shown in the image below)

Layout is also easier to correctly translate.

Should this issue be re-opened? a new issue created? or something else?

What do you think?

Thank you

reopened

Will be fixed in next nightly

closed

mentioned in commit 12277751

Thank you very much for your prompt fix.

Can the strings easily be added to Transifex before the normal weekly merge?

Thank you once again.

nop we never do that. The translation will be updated normally.

Sorry, should have checked the commit 12277751 properly.

Are the labels incorrectly inverted?

Should

1. Right have been changed to Vertical view
2. Bottom have been changed to Horizontal view

jami-client-qt Version: 202202111846

reopened

mentioned in commit 7cc1cddf

Will be fixed in next nightly. But yeah, "Vertical View" is weird, because components are vertical, but the layout is horizontal.

closed