Refreshing compact timeline layout

[Fnux]

Fixes element-hq/element-web#12998.

• Moves useCompactLayout setting to preferences tab.
• Remove avatar from compact layout.
• Make replies compact.

I'm still not completly convinced by the updated layout: I'll try to gather some feedback here and there and update if needed.

Before:

After:

[Fnux]

Note from @tulir: sync with #3553 so that we don't break each other.

[turt2live]

@Fnux can you provide a link to a compiled version of this Riot for our design team to review?

[Fnux]

Aligned a few things:

[Fnux]

@Fnux can you provide a link to a compiled version of this Riot for our design team to review?

Here: https://staticwebhosting.ungleich.ch/~fnux/riot-compact/webapp/

[nadonomy]

Principally the proposal seems fine, but I'm getting really bad issues where:

• When toggling on, my timeline spends a few seconds first before it changes layout reliably
• When toggling off, avatars don't re-appear in the timeline

Can we make those 2 behaviours more reliable first before merging?

[Fnux]

Principally the proposal seems fine, but I'm getting really bad issues where:

• When toggling on, my timeline spends a few seconds first before it changes layout reliably
• When toggling off, avatars don't re-appear in the timeline

Can we make those 2 behaviours more reliable first before merging?

Ack, I'll patch these two issues at some point in the next few days.

[jryans]

@Fnux, are you still interested in working on this?

[Fnux]

Similar to my other merge request: I'll eventually complete but a lot of things are happening on my side/work these days so it has been delayed.

When toggling on, my timeline spends a few seconds first before it changes layout reliably
When toggling off, avatars don't re-appear in the timeline

I'll have to find a way to reload the displayed room when toggling the setting, but have no clue at the moment.

[novocaine]

Unfortunately this PR is stale at this point as it's gone quite out of sync with trunk. I'm going to have to close it as part of our ongoing efforts to clean up the repository.