Allow setting knock room visibility #11464

charlynguyen · 2023-08-23T12:32:08Z

We @nordeck are currently implementing the knock rooms behind the feature flag feature_ask_to_join (introduced in #11182).

This pull request allows setting knock room visibility.

Add checkbox to handle the knock room visibility when creating rooms (CreateRoomDialog).
Add checkbox to handle the knock room visibility when editing rooms (JoinRuleSettings).
Introduce "Ask to join" button to spotlight options to directly prompt the request to join (SpotlightDialog).

Epic: element-hq/element-web#18655

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~~Add join_rule field to /publicRooms response matrix-js-sdk#3673~~

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JoinRuleSettings

SpotlightDialog

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Allow setting knock room visibility (#11464). Contributed by @charlynguyen.

Signed-off-by: Charly Nguyen <[email protected]>

charlynguyen · 2023-08-23T15:30:54Z

FYI @daniellekirkwood 😄

weeman1337

Thank you for your contribution @charlynguyen . Please have a look at my comments:

We are using switches in most places. ~~Can you replace the checkboxes with switches? Otherwise the UI would be (more) inconsistent.~~ Update: Looks like design suggests it this way.

switch	checkbox

src/components/views/dialogs/spotlight/SpotlightDialog.tsx

richvdh

Some additional thoughts from me:

This feels like three separate changes, which are only very tangentially related. I think it would be easier to review and merge if split into separate PRs.
We already have a switch to control whether a room is in the public room directory (on the "General" tab) - I think adding a second control on another tab will be confusing.

richvdh · 2023-08-24T07:49:49Z

src/components/views/dialogs/CreateRoomDialog.tsx

@@ -298,6 +304,18 @@ export default class CreateRoomDialog extends React.Component<IProps, IState> {
            );
        }

+        let visibilitySection: JSX.Element | undefined;
+        if (this.state.joinRule === JoinRule.Knock) {


why do we only expose this control for knockable rooms? Isn't it relevant to other rooms too?

richvdh · 2023-08-24T08:01:22Z

src/components/views/dialogs/CreateRoomDialog.tsx

@@ -215,6 +217,10 @@ export default class CreateRoomDialog extends React.Component<IProps, IState> {
        return result;
    };

+    private onIsPublicChange = (isPublic: boolean): void => {
+        this.setState({ isPublic });


for reference: I was confused about what this isPublic state was doing. The answer is: nothing. It appears to have been introduced by #5698, probably due to an incorrect merge resolution due to a conflict with #6212 (which removed it).

That was also my conclusion. So, I decided to give it a purpose.

weeman1337 · 2023-08-24T08:10:39Z

* We already have a switch to control whether a room is in the public room directory (on the "General" tab) - I think adding a second control on another tab will be confusing.

I've checked the designs. This is how they suggested it. Doesn't mean we shouldn't open this up for discussion.

richvdh · 2023-08-24T08:22:42Z

I've checked the designs. This is how they suggested it. Doesn't mean we shouldn't open this up for discussion.

yeah... I'd like to understand the reasoning behind that decision. Duplicating the setting, but only for knockable rooms, seems confusing to me.

daniellekirkwood · 2023-08-24T10:14:10Z

I agree with this:

We already have a switch to control whether a room is in the public room directory (on the "General" tab) - I think adding a second control on another tab will be confusing.

However, the switch being "point of need" at the "ask to join" part of settings makes sense to me. If we want to remove it from General, then maybe we explore that.

Having discussed the "Compoundifying" of Knocking with @nadonomy this morning we've agreed that it's not on our critical path and we're happy with the team at Nordeck to push forwards with the Knocking designs that we have provided them - then agreeing that when we get to Settings in the Compound project (Q4/Q1) we will review all the switches, toggles, pages and repeated info hollistically and remove them later.

richvdh · 2023-08-24T12:18:39Z

Having discussed the "Compoundifying" of Knocking with @nadonomy this morning we've agreed that it's not on our critical path and we're happy with the team at Nordeck to push forwards with the Knocking designs that we have provided them

@daniellekirkwood can you just confirm my understanding on a few points:

You're happy for these controls to be checkboxes rather than switches
You're happy to duplicate the "include in public directory" switch to multiple room-settings tabs
You're happy for the setting to only appear for knockable rooms, and not (say) "public" rooms. (This seems particularly unintuitive to me)

daniellekirkwood · 2023-08-24T15:29:57Z

You're happy for these controls to be checkboxes rather than switches

I'm happy for this PR to use the method that's been shared in the designs. Esp. knowing that it's likely we'll update it in the next 12 months as part of the compound project. Unless @nadonomy has a big blocker here.

You're happy to duplicate the "include in public directory" switch to multiple room-settings tabs

Not happy but believe it's a temporary necessity as we don't have the answer to where it should like (nor the time/bandwidth to find the answer). The two switches should be linked though - if one is on, the other should reflect that state and vice versa.

You're happy for the setting to only appear for knockable rooms, and not (say) "public" rooms. (This seems particularly unintuitive to me)

Good point -- when someone selects Public it doesn't necessarily add it to the directory, right? Maybe this checkbox should appear there also... @nadonomy i would like support on that question...

charlynguyen · 2023-08-25T07:16:52Z

Thank you for your contribution @charlynguyen . Please have a look at my comments:

We are using switches in most places. ~~Can you replace the checkboxes with switches? Otherwise the UI would be (more) inconsistent.~~ Update: Looks like design suggests it this way.

switch checkbox

That was also my impression during the implementation, but I decided to stick to the screens.

richvdh · 2023-08-29T09:56:18Z

It seems like this does match the intentions from the design team, but I'd still rather see it land as three separate pull requests rather than a single one. @charlynguyen would you mind breaking it up?

charlynguyen · 2023-08-29T11:07:26Z

It seems like this does match the intentions from the design team, but I'd still rather see it land as three separate pull requests rather than a single one. @charlynguyen would you mind breaking it up?

That is totally fine by me 🙂

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Add join_rule field to /publicRooms response matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#3673

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