The issue was for a desktop app. As far as I know windows doesn’t have such a feature.
Edit: Win11 introduced a gif option. As far as I know every big chat app for desktop that supports gifs has a extra pop up for gif selection: teams, discord, rocket chat
This feature was requested for the matrix client on desktop. A workaround mentioned was the macos gif keyboard. There have been multiple implementations by users, mine included, but all of them where rejected because of privacy concerns and that the core team hasn’t decided how they wanted it to be designed.
What is a gif keyboard? What's wrong with copy and pasting from ~/Pictures/memes/?
(Yes, I realize my old is showing)
Search for gifs directly in the keyboard instead of going to a different app or website. iMessage, FB Messenger, Discord, etc. have this
Most keyboards have this feature. What's the point of having a separate one in each app?
The issue was for a desktop app. As far as I know windows doesn’t have such a feature.
Edit: Win11 introduced a gif option. As far as I know every big chat app for desktop that supports gifs has a extra pop up for gif selection: teams, discord, rocket chat
Okay for Desktop it probably makes sense
And then they complain about not enough users switching.
A good experience for the noob is essential.
While all of that is great and true it’s almost irrelevant because adding gif support doesn’t hamstring the privacy of the application.
SimpleX is newer, has arguably better privacy and already supports gif keyboards etc..
I use them both honestly, but I wouldn’t pretend missing some basic features is because of some higher privacy principle.
This feature was requested for the matrix client on desktop. A workaround mentioned was the macos gif keyboard. There have been multiple implementations by users, mine included, but all of them where rejected because of privacy concerns and that the core team hasn’t decided how they wanted it to be designed.
https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/issues/321