Mark Groupchats in Chatlist

[webratte]

Is it a good idea to mark Groupchats (e.g. by text colour or other things) to make they different to 1to1 chats?

[daniele-athome]

Good idea. First of all it should have a different default avatar than a contact. What else do you suggest?

[TheLastProject]

Telegram does this by prefixing all groups with a group icon:

[webratte]

@TheLastProject This seams not different enough for me.
On your screenshot I searched a few seconds to find the prefix.

But at the moment I have no better idea.
I will think about it.

[webratte]

What about a verry very light gray (just a little bit darker then the other chats) background similar while mark by long press?

[daniele-athome]

No, sorry, that's against Android UI rules: background should reflect state, not type (except in some rare situations, which Kontalk is not).

[webratte]

OK, that sounds logical.

[webratte]

The more I think about it the more I agree with @TheLastProject. Other messengers e.g. Threema do it also this way. So there seems to be no Better way.

[abika]

The icon in Telegram is really hard to see imo.

In the desktop client the title font for group chats is in dark green. Maybe this is an option. [And i just noticed this is not very considerate of colorblind people... ]

Maybe an indication in the chat icon? A border or different background (only for the icon)?

[daniele-athome]

The group avatar will have a different default icon for now (I will do it soon). After custom group pictures will be implemented, I think the problem should relatively go away for two reasons:

• the custom picture will be easily recognizable by the user
• I've just implemented name prefix for groups (e396a16)

[daniele-athome]

Ad-hoc default icon for groups in 3030487.

[daniele-athome]

I've added a group indicator like Telegram does in d9bdb7e. If you have any other ideas I'm listening :-)