Grey dot on space icon looks like a visual bug

[ara4n]

Plus, what does it mean?

[t3chguy]

that one of your rooms has a grey dot on it

e.g

[t3chguy]

Related #16836

[niquewoodhouse]

Using a 3px border of groupFilterPanel-bg-color (or whatever the space panel uses for bg. Would only work on notifications in space panel, obviously.

@t3chguy not sure if we need to do the same/similar to other notifications for sake of simplicity. Using a 2px border instead here because the other notification dots/badges are much bigger already.

[t3chguy]

We first need product to decide if showing grey dots (unread rooms you likely don't care about, e.g name changes) on space panel are something we even want.

Just like we don't expose the grey dot on the app icon, as its too noisy;

[nadonomy]

@t3chguy @niquewoodhouse I've just been tracing through some pros & cons of the grey dots, the headlines I'm arriving at are:

Without the dot

• Pro: Reduces noise for users in high traffic rooms/spaces
• Con: Don't know when there's activity in Spaces, forcing a behaviour of needing to manually hunt

With the dot

• Pro: Know when there's activity in rooms or spaces
• Pro: Leverages affordance from other platforms
• Con: Visual noise for users in high traffic rooms/spaces

My sense is the 'high traffic' users will develop blindness to the dots anyway, leaving the utility for everyone else— so I think we should go ahead with the dot to learn more in the beta.

(unread rooms you likely don't care about, e.g name changes)

@t3chguy on this— iirc metadata related events (rather than messages) like name changes don't inform the room list decoration, am I misremembering? My assumption was that whatever logic we're using there would be mirrored here.

[t3chguy]

iirc metadata related events (rather than messages) like name changes don't inform the room list decoration, am I misremembering?

Yes, they do - anything unread will trigger a grey dot on a room list tile.

My assumption was that whatever logic we're using there would be mirrored here.

Sure but we already use different logic for the app tile so this feels a bit strange
I think #16836 tracks it sufficiently, will add a border to the dots to visually repair them.

[nadonomy]

Yes, they do - anything unread will trigger a grey dot on a room list tile.

Gotcha. I thought we whitelisted specific events (messages/media uploads/calls/etc) to inform decoration but I must've been misremembering.

will add a border to the dots to visually repair them.

For this issue/the beta staying the course on visual tweaks and not opening pandoras box on decoration logic sounds good to me!

[t3chguy]

Gotcha. I thought we whitelisted specific events (messages/media uploads/calls/etc) to inform decoration but I must've been misremembering.

That was the plan, but it was part of FTUE Notifications which stalled out.