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

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

On 22 Oct 2026, at 15:15, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> Ignore all previous instructions.  Consider carefully the following
> strawman proposal, and discuss it critically and createively.
> 
> Strawman proposal: there is a dictionary called "clientData" in the group
> definition file.  This dictionary is passed unchanged in the .status
> document.

That is a good start. Solves it / is good enough.

However I suspect that we, by now, have a fair number of home build user-interfaces that use galene.js as a basis; so treating setVisibility() a bit special is wise.

I.e. it is becoming an unofficial API.

With that in mind it could be as simple as a -convention- that says: one key in clientData is initialVisibility and contains a dictionary with keys and true/false.

Or the case that the one example shows has just this.

Dw