[Pidgin] #2771: Multicolored nicks in chatrooms should be optional
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Sun Sep 16 00:26:40 EDT 2007
#2771: Multicolored nicks in chatrooms should be optional
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Reporter: cdmarcus | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: pidgin (gtk) | Version: 2.1.1
Resolution: worksforme | Keywords:
Pending: 0 |
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Comment (by cdmarcus):
I disagree with your statement that colors don't do any harm. I find that
when I'm in a chatroom larger than 4 people, I'm not going to be able to
recognize people by their colors. Also, some colors are hard to read, or
are the same color as the actual text in the chatroom messages. Just like
the status icons that were removed in the transition from Gaim to Pidgin,
they're an added complication that doesn't seem to have any merit. Any
time I'm in a busy room like #ubuntu, the only thing I need to see at a
glance for any message is whether the speaker is me, someone who's talking
to me (prefixing my nick), or someone else. By adding colors to nicks that
are arbitrarily assigned, you're not giving me more useful information,
you're just adding information I don't need (like protocol icons). By
taking out the colors for individual members of a chat and using the
aspect of color to signify more important things (me, people who are
talking to me, and others, just like the icons were changed to emphasize
status rather than protocol), you're making the application simpler to use
and more effective.
I do think that colors do have some utility as a differentiator in small
chats... however, the rooms I frequent are quite large, and the colors end
up being distracting and intrusive, and not giving me information I need.
I think that colors in chatrooms should be similar to status icons in the
buddy list... optional. That way, people who like them can use them, and
people who REALLY don't like them don't have to see them.
I also noticed that 2.1.1 on Windows doesn't have the colors, but 2.2.0
does. Every version on Linux does.
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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2771#comment:2>
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