Input is hidden in rooms with one participant

[jadyndev]

Describe the bug
The text input is hidden in rooms with exactly one participant.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a room with just yourself
2. Enter the chat
3. Convert it into a DM (/converttodm)

Expected behavior
The input seems to exist, it is shown briefly when entering the chat from the menu and there is a blank area at the bottom where the input would be.

Screenshots

Smartphone:

• Device: OnePlus Nord 2
• OS: Oxygen OS 13.0

Additional context

• App version: 1.6.5.sc71 [40101212] (F-b98153c4)
• Store: F-Droid
• Related labs settings: rich text editor is enabled

Upstream relevance
unknown

[SpiritCroc]

Apparently, Element assumes you created a DM using invite-by-mail if no users are currently invited to the DM and only one user is in it: 94675b9
- in which case it makes sense to prevent you from writing messages that nobody will read.

What's the benefit of marking a one-person chat as DM? 🤔
Anyway, sounds like a "misuse" of the DM flag - which isn't bad per say, but that makes this bug not a high-priority to fix.

[jadyndev]

Element Desktop doesn't show this behavior, which is a bit inconsistent.
I'm using such a room to share files and text between multiple devices, it's not the best solution but I have some kind of matrix client pretty much everywhere.

I wouldn't consider this a misuse of the direct flag, as the specification states:

This does not restrict the chat to being between exactly two people [...]
Client Server API 11.25

[SpiritCroc]

I'm using such a room to share files and text between multiple devices, it's not the best solution but I have some kind of matrix client pretty much everywhere.

Doesn't explain to me the benefit of flagging it as "direct" vs not doing so, at least in a usual SchildiChat-setup where you have all chats in one list instead of separate DMs in the overview.
Obviously it's still a bug :)

[jun10r4lm31d4]

> > I'm using such a room to share files and text between multiple devices, it's not the best solution but I have some kind of matrix client pretty much everywhere.

Doesn't explain to me the benefit of flagging it as "direct" vs not doing so, at least in a usual SchildiChat-setup where you have all chats in one list instead of separate DMs in the overview. Obviously it's still a bug :)

For me the is the ability to silence notifications of groups and allow for chats.