[Galene] Re: defaults - like chat/user lists opened or closed

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>]

On 22 Oct 2026, at 01:38, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> wrote:

>> Is there a recommended way to change the default of the standard
>> galene.html interface - such as having the user and/or chat list open or
>> closed once you've entered a group ?
> 
> The group's display name, which is stored in the .status JSON document
> (see the function "start" at the very end of galene.js).  We could easily
> extend this mechanism to other per-group data.
..
> For things that are specific to just a few groups, that won't work, we'll
> need to extend the .status mechanism.

Thinks that makes a lot of sense. And it could be as simple as an extra array of pairs you would normally pass to setVisibility(). And/or some dict of value pairs for general use.

Based on my own use cases (internal enterprise calls) -- 80% is doable with just setVisibility().  And the remaining 20% is almost all CSS stuff -- though controlling/adding a CSS layer through the same mechanism may cover just about all use cases I have had myself.

Dw