element-hq / element-hq/element-web
Navigating Files Panel
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
### Your use case
From the Files panel, you can view a document in the timeline by clicking the user's name.
- Navigation to view a document in the timeline could be more intuitive.
#### What would you like to do?
- Add "View in timeline" button on hover.
- Add "View in timeline" button in right click menu.
- let clicking display name in files panel open user profile in right panel (same as clicking the PFP).
would be useful.
### Have you considered any alternatives?
Make message clickable - Clicking it show the message in timeline.
### Additional context
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the Files panel entry point and trace how clicking a user's name currently opens a document in the timeline or profile in the right panel. Compare the hover and right-click interactions, then verify that the requested View in timeline action and display-name navigation behave as described.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100