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Bug 710208 - Feature Request: better differentiation of users in the chat backlog
Feature Request: better differentiation of users in the chat backlog
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: polari
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Polari maintainers
Polari maintainers
: 784794 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-10-15 18:28 UTC by Ryan Lerch
Modified: 2017-10-28 21:52 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
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Description Ryan Lerch 2013-10-15 18:28:11 UTC 
One feature that i rely on from every other IRC client I have used in the past is that each person's nick in a chat room typically a different colour.

Would it be possible to do something similar in polari?
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2015-04-07 08:35:47 UTC 
FWIW, this is one of the biggest pain point I'm having right now while trying to switch to polari. Not a blocker for a switch, of course.
Comment 2 Florian Müllner 2017-10-05 23:26:21 UTC 
*** Bug 784794 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Stephen Gallagher 2017-10-11 14:05:38 UTC 
For what it's worth, the ticket that was marked as a duplicate of this bug was more generic than this one. Coloring usernames is one possible way to differentiate speakers. Changing the foreground or background color of the text they speak might be others. I'd suggest discussing with a UX expert on what the best ways would be to indicate different speakers to a user.
Comment 4 Ryan Lerch 2017-10-12 23:16:50 UTC 
Yeah, my bad on the original filing of this RFE: i posed the solution rather than helping to define the problem. The problem is definitely that polari currently does not have strong visual differentiation between users in the backlog.

Whether the solution is coloured usernames or backgrounds, or something else.
Comment 5 Florian Müllner 2017-10-28 21:52:33 UTC 
This needs agreement on design, but since we started the gitlab pilot program, bugzilla is feeling increasingly clunky to me (*especially* when discussing visuals), so I took the liberty to migrate this bug:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/polari/issues/23