Signal-android: Contact page does not have standard phonecall option

[mryellow]

@greyson-signal yet another locked issue generates yet another issue. You need to stop making more work for yourself with this over zealous moderation. All you're doing is creating noise with all these attempts to silo people into forums and the like.

As I mentioned in #8308, you can tap someone's avatar in the conversation list in order to be taken to their system contact page to make a phone call. So two taps, not too bad.

This is not how the software functions.

The only call option on this screen is an encrypted call button.

There is no way I can see to make a standard phone call to a contact which has at some point in the past had Signal installed without navigating to them via the phone app itself.

It would be handy if instead of insta-locking this issue you took the time to understand it. I am become more and more acquainted with the reasons for why Signal hasn't seen wider adoption and the reasons for why the software fails to progress on the UX front.

[greyson-signal]

There's two places you can tap someone's avatar: In the conversation itself, and in the conversation _list_ -- i.e. the screen you see when you first open the app. If you tap the avatar in the conversation _list_, you will be taken to their system contact. I suppose I can't promise this for every phone, but in every system contact manager I've seen, there should be a button to start a non-secure phone call.

For Signal users, the call button featured in the conversation screen will always be for encrypted calls. If you'd like to discuss changing that button, please do so in the forum.

[mryellow]

If you tap the avatar in the conversation list, you will be taken to their system contact.

The avatar in the header of messages should go to this same place then. Very unintutive that clicking on avatars takes you to different places depending on context within the app.

If these avatars do not behave consistently that then must be another UX failure and thus a bug which needs a fix applied.

• Why are there two separate and different contact profile screens?
• Why am I unable to navigate to the "system contact" from whatever this screen is the header avatar takes me to?

It's a dead-end. It's a UX failure.

Close and lock more issues and it might just go away and your software might magically become more usable.

please do so in the forum.

No.

I guess we just go forward driving away participation and no improvement to the software instead.

[mryellow]

I've already uninstalled like all those before me. I'm only attempting to make you more aware of the critical nature of these UX failures. The inability for anyone on the team to take them seriously is another failure.

[Gitsaibot]

I've already uninstalled like all those before me

Now stop complaining and everything is fine. Then the developers have more time to take care of the programming. Guys keep up the great work!. There are always people who think they know everything better...

[mryellow]

Now stop complaining and everything is fine

Once I give up on you, all your problems are resolved. lol.

Then the developers have more time to take care of the programming.

If you didn't close every issues you might get the occasional PR.

There are always people who think they know everything better...

Some of them ignore many issues created by the many others on the subject and fail to respond to solutions presented.

[bungabunga]

@mryellow how about going out to get some life?

[mryellow]

Going for an 80km hike day after tomorrow.

Thanks for your valuable contribution. Perhaps you should post it to the forums.