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This isn't easy to implement currently, but not impossible.
The difficulties come from Qt Quick (the QML library that provides us GUI controls)'s lack of a proper nested tree view component and us having to fake one out of a flat ListView, although it seems that things are finally progressing (QTBUG-61630).

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I assume that this means there is currently no way to nest what is used for the initial account "tab"? I will have to look into Qt Quick; never used Qt before, in fact...

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Well, we have to flatten it with iterations. Not super trivial, indeed, but possible. As you mention, ListView should do with separate delegates assigned for rooms and headers indicating room type. Probably, something like you do for multiple accounts already:

• Account name
  • direct messages
    • peer 1
    • peer 2
  • regular rooms
    • room 1
    • room 2
  • low priority
    ...

Compared to current design, seems like just a header type is introduced. Sorting as well, in addition.

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I assume that this means there is currently no way to nest what is used for the initial account "tab"? I will have to look into Qt Quick; never used Qt before, in fact...

I'm not sure what you mean by "initial account tab"

Compared to current design, seems like just a header type is introduced. Sorting as well, in addition.

We have to figure out how that will work on the python side. The "all_rooms" model used by the account-room list catches events emitted by the "accounts" and all the ("<account_user_id>", "rooms") models to aggregate their items, but categories have a different nature: they are not pre-existing items coming from other sources.

I wish we could simply use the ListView.section properties, but these are impossible to collapse by design (the section item stops existing if it has 0 "children") and buggy (gets out of bounds for some reason when filtering rooms and only one or two match is left).

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An alternative (maybe easier to implement) way to implement this would be to allow hiding rooms from the list based on tags. i.e. have a way to show only rooms with a tag or hide rooms with a tag.

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