Currently in Conpherence there is a hard UI distinction about rooms vs messages. Its roughly
- Rooms have
- mandatory title
- explicit policy controls
- create is buried behind room search (T8469)
- Messages have
- optional title, where title is inferred otherwise (see D13220 for latest update on how that works)
- create workflows like "send message" on a user profile don't have them
- policy is inferred via "participants"; basically anyone can do anything once they are a participant
There's been some issues I think would be alleviated if the distinction were removed:
- T8469 - hard to find "create room"
- T8485 -
Proposal is
- keep "send message" on a person's profile as is. infer sensible policy defaults and don't require title.
- this is the only place it says "send message" as the action for creating a ConpherenceThread
- change "Messages" every else to rooms.
- change left hand column UI to just be N most recent rooms
- some T7589 starring should come into effect