Add "Mark as read"

[gileluard]

Your use case

What would you like to do?

As proposed by some users, it could be nice to mark individually a room as read especially now we have a room preview from the Home Screen.

Why would you like to do it?

The "mark as read" feature is already implemented in the SDK and it may be worth thinking about using it for a single room instead of having this option for all rooms in the settings.

How would you like to achieve it?

At first we could add an option in the room context menu but we may have other way to access this feature:

Have you considered any alternatives?

I let @amshakal thinks if this feature is viable and the right way to have a clear UX.

Additional context

No response

[daniellekirkwood]

There were 2 product questions raised:
Can it go out one platform and not all & does it matter that we have it only in one direction

• Mark as read is also offered on Android (in some capacity) so yes, we should launch this on iOS also and create the issues needed to apply this cross-platform.
• It does not matter that we have 'Mark as Read' and not 'Mark as Unread' - ideally we would have both but as that's not currently possible it's ok without.

For both cases we should "err" towards shipping!

Let's go, thanks @gileluard! 🚀

[aaronraimist]

element-hq/element-web#13859 is the Web issue for this

[amshakal]

If we are okay with the product considerations raised above, interaction/design wise this solution seems fine to me. Thanks Gil! I imagine we will add this to People and Rooms both?