I'm honestly not sure what you're talking about here - the roomlist is pure SwiftUI, and looks almost identical to iMessage or WhatsApp to me. What is the "glaring spacing/padding issues" you're talking about? Similarly on the timeline views...
Can you link to a bug on github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/issues please?
I'm not talking about the room list - that (along with settings) looks fine and is absolutely on-par or nicer than standard Element. :)
"Main chat view" is the actual chatroom view. The bubble layout has spacing that makes it hard to scan messages - there's small padding on the bubbles themselves, but then you have inconsistent spacing on e.g if there's a list or something in that bubble, with lists in particular having a seemingly different line-height or spacing between items. Bubbles themselves have little spacing between each other, and then day separators also have odd spacing.
Additionally, I still have a weird green floating box showing up in the chat input box. It's on and off with every update and it's not click/tap-able, and I have zero clue why it's there.
honestly, without annotated screenshots filed in github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/issues to highlight precisely what the problem is (ideally comparing with an equivalent app which you feel gets it correct) i’m not sure we’re going to be able to help you.
the green box sounds like an accessibility helper feature of some kind which has got confused?
> honestly, without annotated screenshots filed in github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/issues to highlight precisely what the problem is (ideally comparing with an equivalent app which you feel gets it correct) i’m not sure we’re going to be able to help you.
I mean, I'm not asking you to help me, I was just curious whether there was any more resources dedicated to the UI/UX of that particular view. If the answer is "no, and we feel the view is fine", then just say that. I might not agree with your choices but it's not going to stop me using the app. ;P
I'm unlikely to stop and annotate a bunch of screenshots and put them on GitHub as I've other things to do with my time. The older I get, the more protective I am of my free time... as much as it sucks from an OSS perspective.
> the green box sounds like an accessibility helper feature of some kind which has got confused?
You mean in Element X itself? I have no accessibility features enabled on my devices, so I doubt it's an OS-level control in the way.
> If the answer is "no, and we feel the view is fine", then just say that. I might not agree with your choices but it's not going to stop me using the app. ;P
It's more "no, and i can't understand the spacing problems which you're describing, and i'm wondering if you're on a strange aspect ratio screen or have zoomed the dynamictype lots or are RTL language or some other edge case that we haven't considered, so i'd like to see a screenshot to understand what you're seeing and if we're on the same page".
> > the green box sounds like an accessibility helper feature of some kind which has got confused?
> You mean in Element X itself?
Nope, in iOS
> I have no accessibility features enabled on my devices, so I doubt it's an OS-level control in the way.
Can you link to a bug on github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/issues please?