Feature suggestion: Add option in Message Format to use the color of the user's mode.

[OrpheusGr]

Hi, i noticed "nick color" gives random colors to people. What would be really cool is a "user mode" color which will show each nick based on the color they have in the userlist (based on their owner/protected/op/voice status).

[kurahaupo]

Two further related enhancements come to mind:

1. Some colours are almost illegible on the dark-but-not-black background. Adherence to the Android style guide is counterproductive without the ability to blacklist certain colours.
2. Allowing colours to be permanently fixed for certain nicks would be helpful. That would imply adding some kind of "buddy list", which would be a lot of work so I'm not expecting to see it any time soon.

[MCMrARM]

The problem of 2 is how do you want to identify these users. Nick+hostname? Hostname alone? Tracking users reliably is almost impossible on IRC so this is a very valid problem.

[isamdz]

if the colors of the nicks are according to the sex, male in blue female in pink according to the realname F / M

[kurahaupo]

@MCMrARM Strictly nick only. If someone uses multiple concurrent connections with multiple nicks then I will deal with them separately.

For me, a "buddy list" would record a list of humans, with each having

• an identifier, such as real name (something that I choose)
• a colour to use to highlight their nick (and I mean highlight in the English language sense, not as a silly euphemism for "mention", "beep", or "alert")
• a list of online identities, each comprising
  • server
  • nick

So a given person would have the same colour, in all channels and on all servers, regardless of their connections or my connections.

I don't care about the colours of people who aren't in my buddy list, but it would be nice if their colour choices could be restricted so as not to overlap with my buddies with nominated colours. Maybe just allow me to give an #RRGGBB code for each of my buddies, rather than restricting me to a palette.

[kurahaupo]

@isamdz I assume you mean F for father & M for mother? What about people who have no children? :stuck_out_tongue:

What about people who have both F and M in their username? Or neither? Or repetitions?

What about droids? Droids are people too...

Mailing in blue females could be tricky.

Seriously, one of the things I like about IRC is being blissfully unaware of the gender of the other person, and of them not knowing my gender.

[kurahaupo]

@MCMrARM back to the initial request, I would like authenticated/pseudonymous status to be indicated, perhaps by colour.

Obviously that would need each speaker to be checked by /whois.

If it's not already known then perhaps it could be deferred until they actually say something.

That might mean that conversation lines that have already been shown may need to be adjusted as /whois results come in; potentially other tests could also be done asynchronously using such a mechanism.

Is that feasible?