The accountList RowLayout is using a Repeater to create Kirigami.BasicListItem entries in the RowLayout. This works fine with 2 accounts, but the more accounts you add, the more difficult it becomes to differentiate between items. For example, I have 4 accounts. Two of my accounts begin with the same account name, so they are indiscernible when the list truncates the text labels significantly. This could be solved either by using account icons in place of the localUserId, or by switching to a ColumnLayout if the number of accounts is > 3.
Or what about a combobox to switch accounts?
+1 for a combobox.
We've made some plans at akademy about a new design that would involve something like an overlaysheet (conceptually, probably not in the implementation) as part of the account switching. i can't make any promises about when that will happen though
I swapped the RowLayout for a ColumnLayout. It was incredibly easy, and makes the view much more usable. I'll try switching it for a ComboBox and see how that works. Either way, it's an improvement over the current RowLayout until a new UI design can be implemented.
Git commit ef255243ecc3c3e8839f800ad5d218a183905cd0 by Tobias Fella, on behalf of Link Dupont. Committed on 23/10/2022 at 15:51. Pushed by tfella into branch 'master'. Use ComboBox as AccountRegistry view Replace the RowLayout with a ComboBox. This permits a higher number of accounts to be used in the application without reducing the usability. M +10 -20 imports/NeoChat/Page/RoomListPage.qml M +10 -3 src/neochataccountregistry.cpp M +6 -0 src/neochataccountregistry.h https://invent.kde.org/network/neochat/commit/ef255243ecc3c3e8839f800ad5d218a183905cd0