element-hq / element-hq/element-web

Hard to find the matrix id in a DM

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A-DMs A-User-Info T-Enhancement X-Needs-Product
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Description

### Your use case

#### What would you like to do?
Check the matrix user id of a DM.
#### Why would you like to do it?
Check which account of a person that has multiple accounts i am talking to.
#### How would you like to achieve it?
Click on the room banner and see the username of the other person in the DM beneath the picture

### Have you considered any alternatives?

Currently this is possible by:
- clicking the room header
- navigating into the people section
- clicking on the other user in the DM

### Additional context

This is what the room info looks like today:

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b09583c2-3c24-406a-9e18-ae5dd6fe873b)

I would like it to include the matrix user id in the DM case

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