Show disabled spaces section in preferences regardless

src/settings/Settings.tsx

@@ -729,6 +729,7 @@ export const SETTINGS: {[setting: string]: ISetting} = {
         description: _td("All rooms you're in will appear in Home."),
         supportedLevels: LEVELS_ACCOUNT_SETTINGS,
         default: false,
+        controller: new IncompatibleController("showCommunitiesInsteadOfSpaces", null),
     },
     "showCommunitiesInsteadOfSpaces": {
         displayName: _td("Display Communities instead of Spaces"),

src/settings/SettingsStore.ts

@@ -467,6 +467,10 @@ export default class SettingsStore {
             throw new Error("Setting '" + settingName + "' does not appear to be a setting.");
         }
 
+        if (!SettingsStore.isEnabled(settingName)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
         // When non-beta features are specified in the config.json, we force them as enabled or disabled.
         if (SettingsStore.isFeature(settingName) && !SETTINGS[settingName]?.betaInfo) {
             const configVal = SettingsStore.getValueAt(SettingLevel.CONFIG, settingName, roomId, true, true);

src/settings/controllers/IncompatibleController.ts

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import SettingsStore from "../SettingsStore";
 export default class IncompatibleController extends SettingController {
     public constructor(
         private settingName: string,
-        private forcedValue = false,
+        private forcedValue: any = false,
         private incompatibleValue: any = true,
     ) {
         super();
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ export default class IncompatibleController extends SettingController {
         return null; // no override
     }
 
+    public get settingDisabled(): boolean {
+        return this.incompatibleSetting;
+    }
+
     public get incompatibleSetting(): boolean {
         return SettingsStore.getValue(this.settingName) === this.incompatibleValue;
     }