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Desktop: private project home channels show no lock icon in the sidebar

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
86/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start in desktop/src/features/channels/ui/ChannelGlyph.tsx and inspect the projectHome and private-visibility branches. Verify the sidebar rendering for a private project home channel, then update the presentation so its privacy remains visible without losing the project mark. Done means private project homes show a lock or private variant, while other channel icons remain unchanged.

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Description

What happens

A channel created with visibility: private that is also a project's home channel shows the project icon (folder + #) in the sidebar, with no lock. Private channels that are not project homes show the lock as expected. Looking at the sidebar, you can't tell that the project channel is private.

Observed in Buzz Desktop 0.5.25 (macOS): the channel's kind 9007 create event and a later kind 9002 update both carry ["visibility","private"], and the relay membership is restricted.

Why

In desktop/src/features/channels/ui/ChannelGlyph.tsx, projectHome is checked first and returns early, so the visibility === "private" branch is never reached for project homes:

if (projectHome) {
  return <ProjectChannelIcon className={iconClass} />;
}
if (channel.visibility === "private") {
  return <Lock className={iconClass} />;
}

Suggestion

Show privacy on project homes as well, for example with a small lock badge on ProjectChannelIcon when channel.visibility === "private", or a private variant of the project icon. Privacy is the more safety-relevant signal of the two, so it shouldn't be hidden by the project mark.

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