Right Justify messages from contacts

[physkets]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Currently, all the conversation is left-justified. This makes differentiating messages a bit hard; the colours on the names of the contact helps, but it would be nice if the two also are differently justified. Check out qTox. They do it this way.

Describe the solution you'd like

The users messages can be left-justified, and the contact's messages right-justified. Then there will be two ways to deal with time-stamps & 'message received' tick-marks. The can be correspondingly right, and left justified, or, have space reserved on the right side: a column for these two things.

Additional context

I don't know for sure if it will be better, but do consider it, if you like it, or think it will help make the Ux clearer.

[naxuroqa]

You are right, the message presentation is still very much unfinished.

I'm going to provide some reference screenshots as well as some mockup ideas.

• Current message representation in qTox:

• Current message representation in venom:

[naxuroqa]

• Improvement idea # 1:

I would then right justify your own message as well as put the bubble arrow on the right side.

Not sure if the bubbles are the best idea. Would probably be best to let the user decide, but that's more work :P .

[naxuroqa]

I think e.g. skype just adds more padding the the left of your own messages and moves the arrow to the other side. Maybe that's an option as well?

[naxuroqa]

This would then look like this:

[physkets]

I think one other thing that leads to clutter in that the profile name and picture is shown for every message. It will look much better, if it is only shown when the sender changes.

[physkets]

The bubbles you introduced in 52a4a66 are very nice. Do you think it is possible to shift the time-stamp into the bubble, and then have many bubble under one mention of a user's name? i.e., group all consecutive, uninterrupted messages by a person.