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Improve User Dropdown Menu – Clicking Username, Status, or Avatar Should Open Profile
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Description
Problem:
Currently, in the User Dropdown Menu, clicking on the avatar does nothing. However, users might expect this to navigate to their Profile Settings, as this is a common UX pattern.
As a regular Rocket.Chat user, I often find myself clicking the avatar to open my profile settings, but it does not respond.
Proposed Improvement:
It would be nice if Clicking the section where username, status, and avatar exists in the User Dropdown Menu should open the Profile Settings page.
- when i click on the avatar
- it should open profile setting
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First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the User Dropdown Menu entry point and trace how the username, status, and avatar section is rendered and how Profile Settings navigation is triggered elsewhere. Make the entire section open Profile Settings when clicked, then verify that each of the three targets navigates there without breaking existing menu behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100