Allow to show rooms in spaces tree and allow to hide room list panel #19140
Labels
A-Room-List
A-Spaces
Spaces, groups, communities
O-Uncommon
Most users are unlikely to come across this or unexpected workflow
S-Minor
Impairs non-critical functionality or suitable workarounds exist
T-Enhancement
X-Needs-Design
X-Needs-Product
More input needed from the Product team
Z-IA
Issues relating to information architecture
Your use case
What would you like to do?
Why would you like to do it?
In the past I got used to the custom tags labs feature to organize my rooms. Maybe I just don't use spaces in the right way, but I am struggling to be absolutely happy with the new spaces UI, introducing a 4 column layout (reducing actual screen space for messages).
I tried to replace the custom tags by a tree of private spaces, which is awesome. But I find myself having to constantly switch between different spaces in order to know whats going on in which rooms. If a room needs my attention I have to click twice, first on the space to reveal the room list, then on the room to show the messages.
The custom tags feature allowed to have some "group of rooms" collapsed and other more important ones expanded and immediately see if some important room needs my attention. This feature is missing now.
How would you like to achieve it?
Option 1 would just show rooms in the spaces tree view as it is done for sub-spaces. The avatar shape should allow to differentiate between the two types. If spaces are leaf-spaces the would also allow to be expanded and collapsed to show and hide rooms on demand.
Option 2 would completely merge the missing rest of the UI elements into the spaces panel and hide the room list. Home could be made expandable and contain expandable People and Rooms section that would show what normally would be shown in the room list for Home.
The only downside I see with option 2, is that People are not grouped in the spaces. They could still be shown under Home > People (for notifications) and in the right side panel to see who is a member of a space. I think the grouping of people is less important for me than grouping rooms, so I could live with this.
This is how I imagine it could look like:
This is how it looks now for reference:
Have you considered any alternatives?
Additional context
I was really hoping that spaces will replace the custom tags labs feature. Somehow I think the 3 predefined tags (Favorites, Rooms and Low priority) will not be enough for me.
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