Full width of messages in channels

Feature Proposal
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1

I’m on Delta Chat 2.59.0 desktop (not tauri).

Messages in usual chats have only part of the width (of ‘messages’ part of the app window). Your messages aligned to the right, and others messages - to the left. It gives nise and clear distinction, and is something like ‘industry standart’.

But it has no sense in read-only channels, where you can’t write, and only can read.

More reasons for making messages in channels (almost) 100% width:

  • It’s a waste of screen space now.
  • Channel messages text content are often longer than chat contents, so they will benefit from full width.
  • It will give even clearer distinction between channels and chats, without breaking overall design patterns.

Expected behavior

Full message width in read-only channels.

Actual behavior

As in bi-directional chats, read-only channel messages have only part of available width.

(Sorry, can’t make screenshots right now.)

2

Maybe it makes sense on some screen widths, but we might not want it if the window size is too big.
Although maybe window size being to big is anyway something that’s weird, IDK.

3

User can always resize a window, right?

OTOH can it be custom-hacked without rebuilding the app?

4

They can but you don’t want to resize the window every time you go from messaging your GF to reading a channel.

You mean trying out your idea? Yes, either dev tools (Ctrl + Shift + I) or a custom theme: