Deltachat-desktop: Chat-view does not scroll down on incoming message

[hpk42]

current master of node + desktop today.

This worked with node/desktop-master 1-2 weeks ago.

[whalehub]

@hpk42 Isn't this intentional? The v1.4.2 changelog says

Changed

• We don't scroll down on incoming messages anymore

[Simon-Laux]

@whalehub yes, but this isn't optimal. We still need to work on the chatview to make it nice.

[MustangDSG]

I think optimal is: if now a text already scrolled to the bottom, need to auto-scroll on incoming messages, if not, don't need to auto-scroll.

[r10s]

https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/pull/1742 says, if the view is 7px close to end of list, scrolling down takes place, otherwise not.

maybe, these 7px are the issue and far too less. i would say sth as "height of window" or maybe some static 500px. if in doubt, a bit too much seems to be fine.

scrolling down is only an issue when scrolling up to read the backlog in a frequently used chat - but _then_ it is _really annoying_ and may prevent reading the backlog at all.

[hpk42]

i think i found at least one way to reproduce: if i am writing in a chat where the last message is from yesterday, then i will not see my own typed message -- only half of the day-marker. my own message that ijust type is invisible below

[Simon-Laux]

was fixed in #1793