[Bug]: Dashboard widgets for "Favorite files" and "Recommended files" use non-standard design
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Description
⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️
- This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
- This issue is not already reported on Github OR Nextcloud Community Forum (I've searched it).
- Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
- I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.
Bug description
The widgets for "Favorite files" and "Recommended files" look even different from each other, but especially different to the very well made widgets of Talk and Tasks:
Steps to reproduce
- Open Dashboard on current daily
- Check the widgets for "Favorite files" and "Recommended files"
Expected behavior
"Favorite files" widget:
- Filetype icons should be squares with rounded corners, like in "Recommended files"
- Why not have a metadata subline? E.g. at least size and last modified date like we show as metadata in the sidebar too.
- The sizing of the entry seems different than in the "Recommended files" widget
- The star icon in the title of the widget is grey instead of white like with the other widgets
"Recommended files" widget:
- Main line of each list entry should be bold, like with the other widgets
Nextcloud Server version
master
Operating system
None
PHP engine version
None
Web server
None
Database engine version
None
Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?
None
Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?
None
What user-backends are you using?
- Default user-backend (database)
- LDAP/ Active Directory
- SSO - SAML
- Other
Configuration report
List of activated Apps
Nextcloud Signing status
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Additional info
Tested on current daily
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the Dashboard implementations for the “Favorite files” and “Recommended files” widgets, then compare their rendered entries with the Talk and Tasks widgets shown in the report. Done means the specified icon shape, metadata, sizing, title icon color, and bold main-line styling are consistent where requested.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- design, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100