Spreed: Ability to add description to conversation

[jakobroehrl]

I like the Rich workspaces a lot. Maybe it's helpful to add these for every talk room.
There could be informations about the room stored:

• Link to our group calendar
• there are our files stored
• this is the todo for this week
• please don't forget our call on wednesday
• please read before post in this group

Describe alternatives you've considered
Pin chat messages to the top where relevant informations are stored would be solve this problem, too.

[nickvergessen]

As for linking to the other resources, the Projects tab in the sidebar should help with exactly that.

But yeah some kind of description makes sense too.

[camilasan]

More use cases for having a description:

• new employees get added to chats they don't know what it is about, the description would fix that
• public chats can have a link to the code of conduct in the description - generally to avoid conflicts and not polite discussions

[PVince81]

We had this topic during the conference on the conference instance: it would have been useful to be able to embed the live stream link and schedule in the main room's description.

Topics to address during implementation

• only moderators can change the description (the same people who can rename a room)
• ideally links in description should be clickable (if rich content not directly possible)
• need concept for mobile devices as well
• "edit description" action to be close to the description location (and/or in the conversation context menu where the "rename" action is)
• the field update will likely be propagated through the regular channels already (polling of conversation API) just like a name change, so no special channel needed
• extra option in occ talk:room:update to be able to update the description with scripts
• optional: same extra option for when creating the room with occ talk:room:create
• guests also see the description

Questions

Where to display the conversation description:

a) somehow sticky at the top of the chat window
- pro: directly visible and obvious
- con: only 1-2 rows, might be a waste of vertical space

b) in a dedicated right sidebar tab
- pro: best for space usage
- con: requires people to go there on purpose

c) in settings tab
- pro/cons like b)
- con: doesn't feel intuitive to go to "settings" to read a description

d) on top of the right sidebar tabs
- pro: visible directly
- con: reduces the available space for the message and require scrolling or an expand button
- con: would reduce the vertical space for the tab contents like participants

If we'd go the "sticky message" approach instead of "description field", only a) would apply.

other ideas ?

[nickvergessen]

We already discussed that it's d) together with

• [ ] a 3 line max and expending on click (like with comments on the files app)
• [ ] potentially collapse more when chat is moved to the sidebar

[nickvergessen]

• [ ] Plain text with clickable links

[nickvergessen]

• Not available for one-to-one and video-verification

[schiessle]

It would be also nice if the lobby would show the description. So people see already in advance what is going to happen in a room before the meeting starts

[ma12-co]

Good Idea @schiessle :)