Fractal: Fractal UI redesign and new dialogs

About the project:

• Fractal is still an early alpha Matrix client. There are many features which are left to be implemented and work to beautify the interface, with more informations available. This project have these objectives:
  • Implement localization support
  • Revamp the room directory
  • Implement a media viewer
  • Improve the behaviour of the "New Messages" divider
  • Add support for multiline message input
  • Add a context menu for messages
  • Improve styling for quotes in the message history

About me:

• My name is Eisha Chen-yen-su, I am in third year of computer science "licence" (French bachelor's degree). I have been using programming languages like C, Python and Java for several years now. I learned Rust over a year ago. I have also used GNOME (on Fedora) for several years now.

  E-mail: chenyensu0@gmail.com

  Blog: GSoC 2018 with GNOME

GSoC Team:

• Mentor: Daniel García Moreno

  Students: Eisha Chen-yen-su, Julian Sparber

Schedule:

• Please note that the "Redesign: "New messages" divider" task couldn't be finished, hence the "WIP" status and the undefined end date.

  Week	Issue	Status
  May 14th - May 19th	Localization support	DONE
  May 20th - June 4th	Redesign: room directory	DONE
  June 2nd - June 14th	Better viewer for room images	DONE
  June 15th - June 19th	Add a Dowload button to images and files attached	DONE
  June 20th - July 7th	Improvements for the image viewer	DONE
  July 8th - N.D.	Redesign: "New messages" divider	WIP
  July 13th - July 23rd	Multiline message input	DONE
  July 19th - August 5th	Message right-click menu	DONE
  July 28th - July 30th	Improved styling for quotes	DONE

  You can also track my progress on GitLab.

Result:

• All the work I've done has been merged. Except some minor bugs, the essential of the work was finished on time. Have a look at my final report for more details.