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Eric Eastwood
@MadLittleMods
@puremourning No worries, get well soon 😁
Dennis Field
@ftab
@MadLittleMods I got the invite to testflight, it's immediately crashing on iPhone XS Max 13.2 beta. Don't know if the data it's sending in the crash report is at all helpful. Tried uninstalling app and reinstalling through testflight, same deal
Eric Eastwood
@MadLittleMods

@ftab @puremourning Is also seeing the same thing. They give a crashlog.crash which is probably useful. Uploaded them to the release issue, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/gitter-ios-app/merge_requests/6#note_229471841

Thanks for the heads-up!

eshnil
@eshnil
@MadLittleMods Chrome has this new feature called TrustedWebActivity. It lets your Android app be exactly the same as your mobile Website (which gives you full-fledged browser support instead of a limited Webview, push notifications and all that). Consider switching the Android app to that? I think it will improve the experience with less maintenance on Android. I could help with this if needed. We just need to remove all Java/Kotlin code, make some changes in the Manifest and set up a link between the site and the app (via Asset Links).
It's a big architecture decision (going all-in on Web instead of native Android code). We did this for one of our work apps, and have been happy with it so far.
Eric Eastwood
@MadLittleMods

@eshnil :+1: This is the plan for the future, see gitlab-org/gitter/webapp#1992

Feel free to make a comment on the issue with your praise for TrustedWebActivity and experience :slight_smile:

Dmitri Zaitsev
@dmitriz
Hi folks, just set up a room and can't see how to integrate with Gitlab repo, any help?
Tomas
@viktomas
@dmitriz You associate the room with a GitHub repo during the room creation https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/blob/develop/docs/rooms.md#room-creation . Please let us know if the docs helped
Tobias Markus
@tobbi_gitlab
How do I change my display name in Gitter?
Tomas
@viktomas
@tobbi_gitlab You can change it in GitLab settings https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/blob/develop/docs/accounts.md#can-i-change-my-username
Tobias Markus
@tobbi_gitlab
Ah, okay, thanks.
It's a shame that the display name can't be different in gitter from the gitlab settings.
Tomas
@viktomas
Just for a reference, you can track gitlab-org/gitter/webapp#1851. We are going to be focusing on better GitLab integration in the near future and this might be part of the epic (even though right now it's part of an epic for allowing users to have multiple identity providers).
Star Light
@starlight-tu_gitlab
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Is there anyway to get rid the menu? It damages the UI pretty hard.
Tomas
@viktomas
@starlight-tu_gitlab Is that the windows desktop client?
Star Light
@starlight-tu_gitlab
@viktomas Yeah, latest version (4.1.0)
Tomas
@viktomas
@starlight-tu_gitlab currently there isn't a way to hide the menu, you can track gitlab-org/gitter/desktop#255
Star Light
@starlight-tu_gitlab
@viktomas I see, thanks.
Dmitri Zaitsev
@dmitriz
Hi folks
any help with HTML badges to Gitter rooms (instead of Markdown)?
Tomas
@viktomas
@dmitriz you can convert the markdown to HTML for example here https://www.browserling.com/tools/markdown-to-html
Dmitri Zaitsev
@dmitriz
@viktomas Thank you!
Star Light
@starlight-tu_gitlab
Does anyone here use Gitter for Ubuntu/Linux x64?
Mine request password everytime open it. Weird :p
Star Light
@starlight-tu_gitlab
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Today in Linux Ubuntu
Tomas
@viktomas
I'm installing Ubutnu and will try to reproduce @starlight-tu_gitlab. Thanks for reporting the issue.
Tomas
@viktomas
@starlight-tu_gitlab I can't reproduce the error. Can you please create an issue in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/desktop/issues with steps to reproduce?
Star Light
@starlight-tu_gitlab
Sure :D
Apostolis Bekiaris
@apobekiaris
gitter desktop does not show, the icon is on the tray and taskbar but the app does not show, i tried reinstall
Star Light
@starlight-tu_gitlab
What does task manager say? @apobekiaris
Apostolis Bekiaris
@apobekiaris
@starlight-tu_gitlab apologies it looked some kind of missbehaviour either from windows or the app, meaning that I could finally restore the app by maximizing it, let drop this thanks
Star Light
@starlight-tu_gitlab
ok
Star Light
@starlight-tu_gitlab
Android version seems a bit inconvenience. There is a bug in GUI which I want to share a screenshot but I couldn't because the Gitter lack of btn to do so.
I think I will submit this issue later. But you all agree with me that Gitter needs upload btn and share hook (which allow gitter accept files from other app) right 😁
Tomas
@viktomas
@starlight-tu_gitlab There is an issue for that gitlab-org/gitter/gitter-android-app#102 but the Gitter team doesn't have the capacity to keep the apps up to date or add new features - gitlab-org/gitter/webapp#2281. The latest thinking is to ask in the community if there's anyone interested in forking the mobile apps and taking over.
Philip Durbin
@pdurbin
Some feedback for the Gitter team as a project (Jupyter) considers reasons why they might switch to something else: https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/thoughts-about-using-discord-for-jupyter-chat/2372
Tomas
@viktomas
Thanks @pdurbin. Recently there has been a handful of projects considering moving away from Gitter. The Gitter team can only hope that the new features we are working on are going to land in time to tip the scales back to Gitter.
Philip Durbin
@pdurbin
Sure. For what it's worth, I'm still considering switching to Gitter (from IRC). Are there any search features coming? A poor search experience seems to come up a lot.
Tomas
@viktomas
Not in the immediate future. The next big thing after threaded conversations is integration with GitLab and supporting multiple OAuth providers for an account. Those seem to be the most popular issues (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues?sort=popularity). But I agree the search could use some love. Maybe updating the ElastSearch to begin with (running v1.4)
Philip Durbin
@pdurbin
Thanks, I'm surprised search improvements don't get more thumbs up.
Only one thumbs up for this issue I opened: gitlab-org/gitter/webapp#1510 :(
Tomas
@viktomas
The most upvoted search issuegitlab-org/gitter/webapp#566
Philip Durbin
@pdurbin
huh, and only two upvotes
Do users know how important it is to upvote issues?
Tomas
@viktomas
Maybe we could implement some kind of welcome message (or context menu item) to nudge people to give the Gitter team feedback by thumbing up issues that bother them.
Philip Durbin
@pdurbin
Do you treat all thumbs up equally? Whether from a key decision maker from the Jupyter project or some rando like me?
Tomas
@viktomas
We've got our product direction represented in the Epics roadmap but me personally I'm looking at the thumbs up to see what features/issues are the users interested in.
Philip Durbin
@pdurbin
Is this explained somewhere? How important voting is?
Philip Durbin
@pdurbin
I've been trying to explain to my open source community about the importance of a new voting mechanism I've set up that makes uses of boards on GitHub Projects (I'd like to support GitLab boards too, if that's possible): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/z8ugn2KzNSc/zt7COeRYBQAJ
Tomas
@viktomas
Similarly to you, we don't have a formalized process about how exactly/how much the votes contribute to our planning process. The votes are something I'm looking at and since they're roughly in sync with our roadmap I haven't given it much thought.