this adds an api to make the newest incoming message of a chat as "fresh",
so that UI can offer a "mark chat unread" option as usual for messengers
(eg. swipe right on iOS toggels between "read" and "unread").
"mark unread" is one of the most requested missing features,
used by many ppl to organize their every day messenger usage -
tho "pinning" and "saved messages" are similar,
it seems to be missed often.
we follow a very simple approach here
and just reset the state to `MessageState::InFresh`.
this does not introduce new states or flows.
therefore, chats without any incoming message cannot be marked as fresh.
in practise, this is probably not really an issue,
as the "mark fresh" is usually used to undo a "mark noticed" operation -
and then you have incoming message.
also, most status messages as "all messages are e2ee" count as incoming.
to avoid double sending of MDN,
we remove `Param::WantsMdn` once the MDN is scheduled.
in case MDN are used for syncing, MDN is still sent as before.
many other messenger show a "badge without number",
if we want that as well,
we can always track the "manually set as fresh" state in a parameter.
but for now, it is fine without and showing a "1", which alsso makes sense as badges may be summed up.
there is an iOS pr that uses this new feature,
jsonrpc is left out until api is settled.
also out of scope is synchronisation -
main reason is that "mark noticed" is not synced as well, so we avoid an imbalance here.
both, "mark noticed" as well as "mark fresh" should be synced however,
as soon as this feature is merged.
encryption info needs a dedicated string for "Messages are end-to-end encrypted"
as the UI will add more infomation to the info messages,
smth. as "Tap for more information".
an alternative fix would have been to let the UI render the info-message
differently, but adding another string to core causes less friction.
instead of Alice saying to Bob "You changed the chat description",
we now say "[Chat description changed, please update ...]
i was also considering to say "[Chat description changed to:\n\n...]"
but then there is no incentive for ppl to update, and chat descriptions
for chat creation would still be missing. and this is probably far more
often used.
successor of https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7829
this PR cleans up with some easy, deprecated stuff.
i roughly checked that they are no longer in use - by these checks,
other deprecated function were kept, eg.
dc_provider_new_from_email_with_dns() and dc_chat_is_protected() is
still used by deltatouch - to not add noise there, we remove them here
on the next cleanup ...
for DC_STR_*, however, if they are in used, the corresponding lines
should just be removed
this will cleanup https://c.delta.chat/deprecated.html as well
- DC_CHAT_TYPE_BROADCAST does no longer exist
- DC_CHAT_TYPE_MAILINGLIST is no longer always read-only
- avoid double docs by moving everything to DC_CHAT_TYPE group
(here, things were also updated recently)
the ringing of 60 seconds is indeed a bit short,
esp. when messages are already delayed.
but also if everythings is fast and working, 60 seconds are short.
the 60 seconds also come from the first implementation,
where we did not had a "reject" message from callee to caller,
so that caller should not wait unnecessarily.
this has changed,
however, the other constraints are still valid -
phone may get offline, and we should not ring for stale calls.
sure, that can be fixed also differently,
but for the current implementation,
the 120 seconds seem to be a good compromise.
- sort garbage to the beginning, readable text to the end
- instead of `%20`, make use of `+` to encode spaces
- shorter invite links and smaller QR codes by truncation of the names
the truncation of the name uses chars() which does not respect grapheme clusters, so
that last character may be wrong. not sure if there is a nice and easy
alternative, but maybe it's good engoug - the real, full name will come
over the wire (exiting truncate() truncates on word boundaries, which is
maybe too soft here - names may be long, depending on the language, and
not contain any space)
moreover, this resolves the "name too long" issue from
https://github.com/chatmail/core/issues/7015
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this PR clarifies some events, also updating to recent changes.
see changed code for details
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- sync declined calls from callee to caller, as usual in all larger
messengers
- introduce the call states "Missed call", "Declined call" and
"Cancelled all" ("Ended call" is gone)
- allow calling end_call()/accept_call() for already ended/accepted
calls, in practise, handling all cornercases is tricky in UI - and the
state needs anyways to be tracked.
- track and show the call duration
the duration calculation depends on local time, but it is displayed only
coarse and is not needed for any state. this can be improved as needed,
timestamps of the corresponding messages are probably better at some
point. or ending device sends its view of the time around. but for the
first throw, it seems good enough
if we finally want that set of states, it can be exposed to a json-info
in a subsequent call, so that the UI can render it more nicely. fallback
strings as follows will stay for now to make adaption in other UI easy,
and for debugging:
<img width="320" alt="IMG_0154"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/09a89bfb-66f4-4184-b05c-e8040b96cf44"
/>
successor of https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6650
this PR uses the initial "call messages" (that has a separate viewtype
since #7174) to show all call status.
this is what most other messengers are doing as well. additional "info
messages" after a call are no longer needed.
on the wire, as we cannot pickpack on visible info messages, we use
hidden messages, similar to eg. webxdc status updates.
in future PR, it is planned to allow getting call state as a json, so
that UI can render nicely. it is then decided if we want to translate
the strings in the core.
<img width="320" alt="IMG_0150"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/41ee3fa3-8be4-42c3-8dd9-d20f49881650"
/>
successor of https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6650
a dedicated viewtype allows the UI to show a more advanced UI, but even
when using the defaults,
it has the advantage that incoming/outgoing and the date are directly
visible.
successor of https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6650
3 months were proven to be too short some years ago, after that issue,
we went far up to 12 months.
however, 12 months were considered too long after recent discussions :)
so, 6 months seems to be a good compromise.
the warning is still repeated every months and the text is unchanged.
advantage is still that this approach does not require network or
opt-in, and catches really all lazy updaters with few effort, cmp
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/issues/5422
this PR adds a info message "messages are end-to-end-encrypted" also for
chats created by eg. vcards. by the removal of lock icons, this is a
good place to hint for that in addition; this is also what eg. whatsapp
and others are doing
the wording itself is tweaked at
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/pull/3817 (and there is
also the rough idea to make the message a little more outstanding, by
some more dedicated colors)
~~did not test in practise, if this leads to double "e2ee info messages"
on secure join, tests look good, however.~~ EDIT: did lots of practise
tests meanwhile :)
most of the changes in this PR are about test ...
ftr, in another PR, after 2.0 reeases, there could probably quite some
code cleanup wrt set-protection, protection-disabled etc.
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closes#6873 , see there for reasoning.
tested that on iOS already, works like a charm - and was much easier
than expected as @iequidoo already updated `timestamp_rcvd` on status
updates in https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/5388
~~a test is missing, ordering is not tested at all, will check if that
is doable reasonably easy~~ EDIT: added a test
this PR scaled avatars using the Triangle-filter,
resulting in often better image quality and smaller files (5%).
it comes at high costs,
therefore, we do not do that unconditionally for each image sent, see
comment in the code
and https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6815
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this PR moves now advanced/unsupported ASM strings to core, removing
work from translations, esp. as another hint is added which would
require retranslations. it is better to have that just in english, it is
a nerd feature anyways.
moverover, this PR removes special rendering of ASM in the summary,
which might be confusion, but mainly it is now unneeded, dead code
i'll do another android PR that will point to "Add Second Device"
already on ASM generation EDIT: done at
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/pull/3726
targets https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/issues/4946
next android/desktop/ios releases won't have the "Show Classic Emails"
option for chatmail.
to avoid issues with user that have set sth else than "All", we ignore
the option alltogether for chatmail profiles.
ftr, i do not expect ppl having that option changed for chatmail much,
it does not make much sense. so this PR is mainly to save our limited
support resources :) (usecase: "look, i am using chatmail to sign up at
SERVICE, but for security reasons i set show=all only when i reset my
password" :)
one could also do that in a migration, however, (a) migrations always
come with some risk, even the easiest ones, and (b) the show_emails
option is subject to change or disappear anyways, subsequent changes are
easier in code than in additional or removed migrations, and (c) it is
really only one line, that does not add much with complexity
for tuning down email address everywhere, that bit is missing in core.
it was never useful, as it was never shown on the receivers side. and
for the sender side, the context the qr code is opened is clear
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instead of showing addresses in info message, provide an API to get the
contact-id.
UI can then make the info message tappable and open the contact profile
in scope
the corresponding iOS PR - incl. **screencast** - is at
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios/pull/2652 ; jsonrpc can come
in a subsequent PR when things are settled on android/ios
the number of parameters in `add_info_msg_with_cmd` gets bigger and
bigger, however, i did not want to refactor this in this PR. it is also
not really adding complexity
closes#6702
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Co-authored-by: Hocuri <hocuri@gmx.de>
otherwise, by tuning down the email addresses,
one does not really has and idea who is SELF.
maybe the dialog is the only way at the end to get the transport
adresses of contacts,
this is unclear atm, this PR fixes the issue at hand
this PR deletes all known messages belonging to a chat when the chat is
deleted.
this may not be an exhaustive list as a client might not know all
message-ids (eg. when using different times for "delete from device").
in this case, other devices may know more IDs. otherwise, the chatmail
server will eventually clean up at some point. for non-chatmail, this is
up to the user then.
the deletion sql commands were inspired by
[`delete_msgs_ex`](https://github.com/chatmail/core/blob/main/src/message.rs#L1743)
(in fact, [a first
try](https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/r10s/clear-chat-on-delete)
was adapting that part, however, that seems less performant as lots of
sql commands are needed)
successor of #5007
up to now, avatars were restricted to 20k, 256x256 pixel.
resulting in often poor avatar quality.
(the limitation comes from times
where unencrypted outlook inner headers were a thing;
this has changed meanwhile)
to increase quality while keeping a reasonable small size,
for "balanced quality",
we increase the allowed width to 512x512 and the allowed size to 60k.
for "worse quality", things stay unchanged at 128x128 pixel and 20k.
> _greetings from the ice of the deutsche bahn 🚂🚃🚃🚃 always a pleasure to
see how well delta chat meanwhile performs in bad networks :)_
this PR adds an API to request other chat members to replace the message
text of an already sent message. scope is mainly to fix typos. this
feature is known from whatsapp, telegram, signal, and is
[requested](https://support.delta.chat/t/retract-edit-sent-messages/1918)
[since](https://support.delta.chat/t/edit-messages-in-delta-chat/899)
[years](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues/198).
technically, a message with an
[`Obsoletes:`](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2076#section-3.6)
header is sent out.
```
From: alice@nine
To: bob@nine
Message-ID: 2000@nine
In-Reply-To: 1000@nine
Obsoletes: 1000@nine
Edited: this is the new text
```
the body is the new text, prefixed by the static text `Edited:` (which
is not a header). the latter is to make the message appear more nicely
in Non-Delta-MUA. save for the `In-Reply-To` header. the `Edited:`
prefix is removed by Delta Chat on receiving.
headers should be protected and moved to e2ee part as usual.
corrected message text is flagged, and UI should show this state, in
practise as "Edited" beside the date.
in case, the original message is not found, nothing happens and the
correction message is trashes (assuming the original was deleted).
question: is the `Obsoletes:` header a good choice? i _thought_ there is
some more specifica RFC, but i cannot find sth. in any case, it should
be an header that is not used otherwise by MUA, to make sure no wanted
messages disappear.
what is NOT done and out of scope:
- optimise if messages are not yet sent out. this is doable, but
introduces quite some cornercaes and may not be worth the effort
- replaces images or other attachments. this is also a bit cornercasy
and beyond "typo fixing", and better be handled by "delete for me and
others" (which may come soon, having the idea now, it seems easy :)
- get edit history in any way. not sure if this is worth the effort,
remember, as being a private messenger, we assume trust among chat
members. it is also questionable wrt privacy, seized devices etc.
- add text where nothing was before; again, scope is "typo fixing",
better avoid cornercases
- saved messages are not edited (this is anyway questionable)
- quoted texts, that are used for the case the original message is
deleted, are not updated
- edits are ignored when the original message is not there yet (out of
order, not yet downloaded)
- message status indicator does not show if edits are sent out or not -
similar to reactions, webxdc updates, sync messages. signal has the same
issue :) still, connectivity should show if there are messages pending
<img width="366" alt="Screenshot 2025-02-17 at 17 25 02"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a4a53996-438b-47ef-9004-2c9062eea5d7"
/>
corresponding iOS branch (no PR yet):
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios/compare/main...r10s/edit-messages
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this converts old QR codes to the new format, in an hacky, but simple
way, see #6518 for more details and for code snippet
then QR code change is esp. bad as ppl will have different versions for
some days at least, weakening overall UX, esp. of first-time-users that
may come to delta because of praised, seamless multidevice ... :)
i tested in https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios/pull/2595 that
this actually fixes the problem, and there is no deeper issue with
changed chashes or so - seemed not to be the case, at least, with this
hack, core accepts QR codes from the released 1.52-and-before series
this hack gives user time to update, it can be removed after some months
(we can also remove the old BACKUP qr code alltogether then)
we should still not wait too long with the PR as there are already
versions out with the "new/bad" QR code (and growing, as new iOS
installations will get the new format, one cannot revert a version, only
pause rollout)
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> _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:
<img width="260" alt="Screenshot 2025-01-17 at 00 02 51"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/902741b6-167f-4af1-9f9a-bd0439dd20d0"
/> <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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without the prefix,
it looks as if it is part of the Message-ID,
esp. if Message-ID is longer,
a break on different delimiters may look exactly the same.
see #6329 for some screenshots that initially confused me :)
this partly reverts experimental #3516
that allowed any .xdc sent to "Saved Messages" to request internet.
this helped on pushing map integration forward.
meanwhile, however, we have that map integration (#5461 and #5678),
that implies `info.internet_access` being set.
experimental `manifest.request_internet_access` is no longer needed therefore.
future will tell, if we revive the option at some point or
go for more intrations ('sending' is discussed often :) -
but currently it is not needed.
with this PR, when an `.xdc` with `request_integration = map` in the
manifest is added to the "Saved Messages" chat, it is used _locally_ as
an replacement for the shipped maps.xdc (other devices will see the
`.xdc` but not use it)
this allows easy development and adapting the map to use services that
work better in some area.
there are lots of known discussions and ideas about adding more barriers
of safety. however, after internal discussions, we decided to move
forward and also to allow internet, if requested by an integration (as
discussed at
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/pull/3516).
the gist is to ease development and to make users who want to adapt,
actionable _now_, without making things too hard and adding too high
barriers or stressing our own resources/power too much.
note, that things are still experimental and will be the next time -
without the corresponding switch being enabled, nothing will work at
all, so we can be quite relaxed here :)
for android/ios, things will work directly. for desktop, allow_internet
needs to be accepted unconditionally from core. for the future, we might
add a question before using an integration and/or add signing. or sth.
completely different - but for now, the thing is to get started.
nb: "integration" field in the webxdc-info is experimental as well and
should not be used in UIs at all currently, it may vanish again and is
there mainly for simplicity of the code; therefore, no need to document
that.
successor of https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/pull/5461
this is how it looks like currently - again, please note that all that
is an experiment!
<img width=320
src=https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/assets/9800740/f659c891-f46a-4e28-9d0a-b6783d69be8d>
<img width=320
src=https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/assets/9800740/54549b3c-a894-4568-9e27-d5f1caea2d22>
... when going out of experimental, there are loots of ideas, eg.
changing "Start" to "integrate"
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
using long options make things less mystical, it is clearer what
happens.
(apart from that i also disallowed `git -a` on my machine in general, as
`git commit -a` is considered harmful. as my approach to disallow that
is a bit greedy and disallows `-a` just for any git commands, this is
the only place where i regularly struggle :)
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
it may be handy for an xdc to have only one list of all adresses, or
there may just be bugs.
in any case, do not notify SELF, e.g. in a multi-device setup; we're
also not doing this for other messages.
this is also a preparation for having an option to notify ALL.
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: 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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due to async processing,
it may happen getConnectivityHtml() is called from UI before startIO() is actually called.
eg. on iOS, we may delay startIo() if another process is still processing a PUSH notification -
when during this time, the connectivity view is opened,
it is weird if a big error "CONTACT THE DEVELOPERS!11!!!" is shown :)
also, there is not really a function is_connected(),
for $reasons, as this turned out to be flacky,
so it is not even easy to check the state before calling getConnectivityHtml()
it is not worth in doing too much special,
we are talking about rare situaton,
also, the connectivity view gets updated some moments later.
80 characters are a bit limited in practise ...
On Mon, 3 Jan, 2022 at 8:34 PM "Anonymous The Mighty" <anonymous@example.com> wrote:
... already breaks the limit. it is good to allow up to 40 additional characters
for name + email address.
allowing any length, however, may catch too much,
as the line could also be a normal paragraph with important content,
so 120 characters seems reasonable.
the idea of adding more complexity here would probably lead only to, well more complexity -
things can anyways go wrong -
and, we have the "show full message..." button for exactly that purpose,
so that the user can access everything as original.
so, if things go wrong sometimes,
this is expected and fine.
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](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/pull/2138/commits/e5dc8fe3d82e8b72631ae5806e9c4c7eec93a37a)
[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 :)
this PR adds the type DC_QR_SOCKS5_PROXY to `dc_check_qr()` for
**supporting telegram proxy QR codes**. if returned, the UI should ask
the user if they want to us the proxy and call
`dc_set_config_from_qr();` afterwards (plus maybe `dc_configure()`).
idea is to improve our proxy story, follow ups may be:
- in UI, - move proxy out of "Account & Password", as a **separate
"Proxy Activity"** (it should stay in "Advanced" for now, however, below
"Server", which might be moved up)
- allow **opening the "Proxy Activity" from the welcome screens**
three-dot-menu (that would also solve a long standing issue that
entering the email address bypasses the proxy
- show proxy usage in the "Connectivity View" and/or add an **icon** to
the main chatlist screen (beside three-dot menu) in case some proxy is
in use; tapping this icon will open the "Proxy Activity"
- the the new "Proxy Activity", add a **share / show proxy QR code**
button. that would generate invite links in the form
`https://i.delta.chat/socks#...` - so that tapping then opens the app.
support for these links need to be added to core then.
- handle a list of proxies in core, offer selection in UI. the list
could be one for all profiles and could be filled eg. by normal invite
links or other channels
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B. Petersen
