Minor UI changes/improvements

[lkosson]

What is your opinion on making a following changes to UI? I find current behavior non-intuitive or suboptimal, but before submitting PR or issue I would like to hear what you think.

• Change "Uptime" on node details screen to account for "Last heard". Currently you can have "Uptime: 10 min" and "Last heard: 2h", while "Uptime 2h 10 min" would be more accurate.
• Touching any existing reaction on messages screen immediately posts same reaction without any confirmation, making it a bit too easy to accidentally add your reaction.
• Related to previous one: even when you already added a reaction to message, clicking it sends over radio the same reaction, without any feedback that you did it.
• Still related to reactions - adding a new one sends it without any confirmation. On a phone with small screen it is way too easy to miss-touch emoji and send wrong one. Especially embarrassing considering "thumbs down" is next to "heart", and "middle finger" is next to "writing". Proposed change would be for reaction panel to instead add emoji to text input field. When accepted and send per-se, it would be converted to reaction message on-the-wire.
• On recently updated message screen, reaction buttons take about 20% of screen height. I suggest moving the button inside message card while there are no existing reactions, and displaying it on its own row (like currently) only if there already are some reactions to the message.
• Not sure how often it is used, but "Alert bell" button takes quite a bit of vertical space. Perhaps it could be moved somewhere to make it less prominent and free up space for actual messages?
• Touching a user nameplate on channels/DMs main screen currently does nothing, while it could open that node/user details screen.
• In one's own node in "Traceroute log" is permanently inactive - it could show all sent traceroutes (or perhaps all one-way traceroutes received from other nodes).
• Allow customising per-channel notifications. In populated areas default channel can have a torrent of test and automated messages, so switching it (and only it) to have silent notifications (or no notifications at all) would be nice.

[jamesarich]

• Change "Uptime" on node details screen to account for "Last heard". Currently you can have "Uptime: 10 min" and "Last heard: 2h", while "Uptime 2h 10 min" would be more accurate.

this would need broader platform (cross client) alignment - it wouldn't make sense if the Android app was the only one presenting uptime this way.

• Touching any existing reaction on messages screen immediately posts same reaction without any confirmation, making it a bit too easy to accidentally add your reaction.
• Related to previous one: even when you already added a reaction to message, clicking it sends over radio the same reaction, without any feedback that you did it.
• Still related to reactions - adding a new one sends it without any confirmation. On a phone with small screen it is way too easy to miss-touch emoji and send wrong one. Especially embarrassing considering "thumbs down" is next to "heart", and "middle finger" is next to "writing". Proposed change would be for reaction panel to instead add emoji to text input field. When accepted and send per-se, it would be converted to reaction message on-the-wire.

The current reaction ux follows typical mobile messaging app user experience - no change for reactions needed.

• On recently updated message screen, reaction buttons take about 20% of screen height. I suggest moving the button inside message card while there are no existing reactions, and displaying it on its own row (like currently) only if there already are some reactions to the message.

Open to tuning the message ui for smaller screens - but not at the expense of current functionality.

• Not sure how often it is used, but "Alert bell" button takes quite a bit of vertical space. Perhaps it could be moved somewhere to make it less prominent and free up space for actual messages?

this is also used for QUICK CHAT actions, it may be possible to make this a little less obtrusive - but needs to be able to be accessed quickly as these are QUICK CHAT actions that are expected to be readily available to send a predefined canned/quick message.

• Touching a user nameplate on channels/DMs main screen currently does nothing, while it could open that node/user details screen.

this has been on my list but lower priority

• In one's own node in "Traceroute log" is permanently inactive - it could show all sent traceroutes (or perhaps all one-way traceroutes received from other nodes).

sure this seems fine

• Allow customising per-channel notifications. In populated areas default channel can have a torrent of test and automated messages, so switching it (and only it) to have silent notifications (or no notifications at all) would be nice.

We've currently been leveraging the system notification settings - if we make a notification channel per channel/dm that would allow for more granular settings.

[jamesarich]

Also - thanks for your contributions. I appreciate you putting some careful thinking into making the app a better experience!