New RR layout unnecessarily wastes horizontal screen estate

[ara4n]

Steps to reproduce

1. Observe the new RR layout when you have a lot of RRs on a message - looks cute!
2. But then realise there's a huge right-hand margin on the message bodies which is presumably left over from the old layout, wasting horizontal screen real estate.

Outcome

What did you expect?

New RR layout to give more horizontal real estate

What happened instead?

It doesn't.

Operating system

No response

Application version

nightly

How did you install the app?

No response

Homeserver

matrix.org

Will you send logs?

No

[niquewoodhouse]

Just to be sure, please, this is referring to this 'gap' between the receipts on the right and the message content on the left?

You're completely right, nothing was changed in terms of where they appear. It was just about what happens when you click.

I think this might be a bigger than small design challenge, but I'm assuming a lot (eg - some need to align them with sent/sending iconography). I'll raise with other designers to see if they can help me understand the area more and if they can't, will ask N4d for all the nuance/history.

[justjanne]

some need to align them with sent/sending iconography

From a technical perspective: sent/sending icons use the same CSS classes as read receipts, so they are aligned and positioned identically.

[t3chguy]

The timeline reserves a right margin to avoid overlapping with the read receipts, since read receipts are much narrower now, the reserved column can be shrunk down to fit