> _took quite some time until i found the time to finish this PR and to
find a time window that does not disturb other developments too much,
but here we are:_
this PR enables UI to improve "Saved messages" hugely, bringing it on
WhatsApp's "Starred Messages" or Telegram's "Saved Messages" level. with
this PR, UIs can add the following functionality with few effort ([~100
loc on iOS](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios/pull/2527)):
- add a "Save" button in the messages context menu, allowing to save a
message
- show directly in the chat if a message was saved, eg. by a little star
★
- in "Saved Messages", show the message in its context - so with author,
avatar, date and keep incoming/outgoing state
- in "Saved Messages", a button to go to the original message can be
added
- if the original message was deleted, one can still go to the original
chat
these features were often requested, in the forum, but also in many
one-to-one discussions, recently at the global gathering.
moreover, in contrast to the old method with "forward to saved", no
traffic is wasted - the messages are saved locally, and only a small
sync messages is sent around
this is how it looks out on iOS:
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/> <img width="353" alt="Screenshot 2025-01-17 at 00 05
33"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/97eceb79-6e43-4a89-9792-2e077e7141cd"
/>
technically, still a copy is done from the original message (with
already now deduplicated blobs), so that things work nicely with
deletion modes; eg. you can save an important message and preserve it
from deletion that way.
jsonrpc can be done in a subsequent PR, i was implementing the UI on iOS
where that was not needed (and most API were part of message object that
is not in use in jsonrpc atm)
@hpk42 the forward issue we discussed earller that day is already solved
(first implementation did not had an explict save_msgs() but was using
forward_msgs(SELF) as saving - with the disadvantage that forwarding to
SELF is not working, eg. if one wants the old behaviour) acutally, that
made the PR a lot nicer, as now very few existing code is changed
<details>
<summary>previous considerations and abandoned things</summary>
while working on this PR, there was also the idea to just set a flag
“starred” in the message table and not copy anything. however, while
tempting, that would result in more complexity, questions and drawbacks
in UI:
- delete-message, delete-chat, auto-deletion, clear-chat would raise
questions - what do do with the “Starred”? having a copy in “Saved
Messages” does not raise this question
- newly saved messages appear naturally as “new” in “Saved Messages”,
simply setting a flag would show them somewhere in between - unless we
do additional effort
- “Saved Messages” already has its place in the UI - and allows to
_directly_ save things there as well - not easily doable with “starring”
- one would need to re-do many things that already exist in “Saved
Messages”, at least in core
- one idea to solve some of the issues could be to have “Starred” as
well as “Saved Messages” - however, that would irritate user, one would
remember exactly what was done with a message, and understand the fine
differences
whatsapp does this “starred”, btw, so when original is deleted, starred
is deleted as well. Telegram does things similar to us, Signal does
nothing. Whatsapp has a per-chat view for starred messages - if needed,
we could do sth. like that as well, however, let’s first see how far the
“all view” goes (in contrast to whatsapp, we have profiles for
separation as well)
for the wording: “saving” is what we’re doing here, this is much more on
point as “starring” - which is more the idea of a “bookmark”, and i
think, whatsapp uses this wording to not raise false expectations
(still, i know of ppl that were quite upset that a “starred” message was
deleted when eg. the chat was cleared to save some memory)
wrt webxdc app updates: options that come into mind were: _empty_ (as
now), _snapshot_ (copy all updates) or _shortcut_ (always open
original). i am not sure what the best solution is, the easiest was
_empty_, so i went for that, as it is (a) obvious, and what is already
done with forwarding and (b) the original is easy to open now (in
contrast to forwarding).
so, might totally be that we need or want to tweak things here, but i
would leave that outside the first iteration, things are not worsened in
that area
wrt reactions: as things are detached, similar to webxdc updates, we do
not not to show the original reactions - that way, one can use reactions
for private markers (telegram is selling that feature :)
to the icon: a disk or a bookmark might be other options, but the star
is nicer and also know from other apps - and anyways a but vague UX
wise. so i think, it is fine
finally, known issue is that if a message was saved that does not exist
on another device, it does not get there. i think, that issue is a weak
one, and can be ignored mostly, most times, user will save messages soon
after receiving, and if on some devices auto-deletion is done, it is
maybe not even expected to have suddenly another copy there
</details>
EDIT: once this is merged, detailed issues about what to do should be
filed for android/desktop (however, they do not have urgency to adapt,
things will continue working as is)
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Co-authored-by: Hocuri <hocuri@gmx.de>
A NDN may arrive days after the message is sent when it's already impossible to tell which message
wasn't delivered looking at the "Failed to send" info message, so it only clutters the chat and
makes the user think they tried to send some message recently which isn't true. Moreover, the info
message duplicates the info already displayed in the error message behind the exclamation mark and
info messages do not point to the message that is failed to be sent.
Moreover it works rarely because `mimeparser.rs` only parses recipients from `x-failed-recipients`,
so it likely only works for Gmail. Postfix does not add this `X-Failed-Recipients` header. Let's
remove this parsing too. Thanks to @link2xt for pointing this out.
Also cleaned up test_connectivity()
which tested that state does not flicker to WORKING
when there are no messages to be fetched.
The state is expected to flicker to WORKING
when checking for new messages,
so the tests were outdated since
change 3b0b2379b8
following `RELEASE.md`, after merging, the following is needed:
6. Tag the release: `git tag --annotate v1.151.2`.
7. Push the release tag: `git push origin v1.151.2`.
8. Create a GitHub release: `gh release create v1.151.2 --notes ''`.
this PR adds the `href` from `update.href` to the IncomingWebxdcNotify
event (DC_EVENT_INCOMING_WEBXDC_NOTIFY in cffi)
purpose is to add a "Start" button to the notifications that allow
starting the app immediately with the given href
- **feat: add `AccountsChanged` and `AccountsItemChanged` events**
- **emit event and add tests**
closes#6106
TODO:
- [x] test receiving synced config from second device
- [x] bug: investigate how to delay the configuration event until it is
actually configured - because desktop gets the event but still shows
account as if it was unconfigured, maybe event is emitted before the
value is written to the database?
- [x] update node bindings constants
this PR removes most usages of the `descr` parameter.
- to avoid noise in different branches etc. (as annoying on similar, at
a first glance simple changes), i left the external API stable
- also, the effort to do a database migration seems to be over the top,
so the column is left and set to empty strings on future updates - maybe
we can recycle the column at some point ;)
closes#6245
add `update.href` property option to update objects send via
`Context::send_webxdc_status_update()`.
when set together with `update.info`,
UI can implement the info message as a link that is passed to the webxdc
via `window.location.href`.
for that purpose, UI will read the link back from
`Message::get_webxdc_href()`.
Practically,
this allows e.g. an calendar.xdc
to emits clickable update messages
opening the calendar at the correct date.
closes#6219
documentation at https://github.com/webxdc/website/pull/90
I found the old documentation rather hard to understand. The new doc
string:
- uses whole sentences, leaving less space for misinterpretation
- explicitly mentions that it can happen that there is no
webxdc-info-message
- is clearly structured using bullet points.
this PR adds support for the property `update.notify` to notify about
changes in `update.info` or `update.summary`. the property can be set to
an array of addresses [^1]
core emits then the event `IncomingWebxdcNotify`, resulting in all UIs
to display a system notification, maybe even via PUSH.
for using the existing `update.info` and `update.summary`: the message
is no secret and should be visible to all group members as usual, to not
break the UX of having same group messages on all devices of all users -
as known already from the normal messages.
also, that way, there is no question what happens if user have disabled
notifications as the change is presented in the chat as well
doc counterpart at https://github.com/webxdc/website/pull/90closes#6217
[^1]: addresses come in either via the payload as currently or as an
explicit sender in the future - this does not affect this PR. same for
translations, see discussions at #6217 and #6097
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Co-authored-by: adb <asieldbenitez@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: l <link2xt@testrun.org>
this PR adds the address to be used by the UI for
`window.webxdc.selfAddr` to webxdc-info. UIs need to be changed
accordingly and must not use configured_addr any longer.
the address is created by sha256(private-key + rfc724_mid) , which
results in different addresses for each webxdc, without the option to
find out the real address of the user.
this also returns the same address for a multi-device-setup - sending
totally random self address around might be an alternative, however
would require connectivity (both devices may be offline on first start).
for existing app, after the change, there will be a new user, resulting
eg. in a new highscore, otherwise, things should be mostly fine. this
assumption is also important as we might change the thing another time
when it comes to multi-transport.
ftr, addresses look like
`0f187e3f420748b03e3da76543e9a84ecff822687ce7e94f250c04c7c50398bc` now
when this is merged, we need to adapt #6230 and file issues for all UI
to use `info.selfAddr`
closes#6216
this PR changes `DC_CERTCK_ACCEPT_*` to the same values in cffi as rust
does. and regards the same values as deprecated afterwards
there is some confusion about what is deprecated and what not, see
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues/3408
iOS needs to be adapted as it was following the docs in the CFFI before,
same desktop. both need to be graceful on reading and strict on writing.
~~**this PR is considered harmful,** so we should not merge that in
during 1.48 release, there is no urgency, things are fine (wondering if
it isn't even worth the effort, however, having different values and
deprecations is a call for trouble in the future ...)~~
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Co-authored-by: iequidoo <117991069+iequidoo@users.noreply.github.com>
This change adds support for receiving
Autocrypt header in the protected part of encrypted message.
Autocrypt header is now also allowed in mailing lists.
Previously Autocrypt header was rejected when
List-Post header was present,
but the check for the address being equal to the From: address
is sufficient.
New experimental `protect_autocrypt` config is disabled
by default because Delta Chat with reception
support should be released first on all platforms.
this PR adds a function that can be used to create any QR code, in a raw
form.
this can be used to create add-contact as well as add-second-device QR
codes (eg. `dc_create_qr_svg(dc_get_securejoin_qr())`) - as well as for
other QR codes as proxies.
the disadvantage of the rich-formatted QR codes as created by
`dc_get_securejoin_qr_svg()` and `dc_backup_provider_get_qr_svg()` were:
- they do not look good and cannot interact with UI layout wise (but
also tapping eg. an address is not easily possible)
- esp. text really looks bad. even with
[some](e5dc8fe3d8)
[hacks](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/pull/2215) it
[stays buggy](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios/issues/2200);
the bugs mainly come from different SVG implementation, all need their
own quirks
- accessibility is probably bad as well
we thought that time, SVG is a great thing for QR codes, but apart from
basic geometrics, it is not.
so, we avoid text, this also means to avoid putting an avatar in the
middle of the QR code (we can put some generic symbol there, eg.
different ones for add-contact and add-second-device).
while this looks like a degradation, also other messengers use more raw
QR codes. also, we removed many data from the QR code anyway, eg. the
email address is no longer there. that time, sharing QR images was more
a thing, meanwhile we have invite links, that are much better for that
purpose.
in theory, we could also leave the SVG path completely and go for PNG -
which we did not that time as PNG and text looks bad, as the system font
is not easily usable :) but going for PNG would add further challenges
as passing binary data around, and also UI-implemtation-wise, that would
be a larger step. so, let's stay with SVG in a form we know is
compatible.
the old QR code functions are deprecated.
this PR allows setting a "private tag" for a profile, see
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/pull/3373 for a possible
UI.
currently, the core does not do anything with the tag (so, it could also
be a ui.-config option), however, this may change in the future - it
might bet synced, and become also otherwise useful in core. also, having
this in core is better documentation-wise, as otherwise each UI easily
does its own things :)
