Continuing the discussion from Swiping to initiate a reply in chat : [image] Swiping to initiate a reply in chat I’ve thought about trying to implement a theme component that would do it but also have gained some hesitance to create themes related to chat as I created one to make the layout look …

I would recommend you wait a little bit more. We have various renames which will happen. I was waiting for us moving chat to core and it happened last week. Hopefully it happens in the coming month.

I think chat is still evolving pretty quickly for themes and theme components, but I’ll see if anyone can comment with more nuance than that (x and y are likely to change less frequently; better to stay away from z for now). Any more context about what kinds of things you’d like to be able to custo…

Sure, I can add more context for what I want to do now: Chat messages to look more like WhatsApp/iMessage/Signal bubbles, with left to right alignment and bubble outline Chat replies to look more like WhatsApp, to be blockquotes included in the bubbles, including any media or links from the or…

Is chat stable enough to create themes/components that won't break?

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jimkleiber (Jim Kleiber) November 8, 2022, 2:21pm 7

Oh, excellent, I hope that happens soon and appreciate the heads up

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Is chat stable enough to create themes/components that won't break?

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