colorize names by public key
hackergrrl opened this issue · comments
weechat has a nice feature where names are coloured by hashing a user's name. We could hash each user's public key, which has a nice feature of (statistically) indicating when someone is impersonating someone else by their nick.
I think this really belongs in a common cabal-client module that clients use, but putting it here for now.
A feature I'd like to add to cabal-desktop and cabal-mobile would be themeing.... I'm planning on copying slack's implementation of it where they use a string of 8 hex colors as a way to share themes.
It would be fantastic if that setting could be stored along with other similar user settings on the hyperdb so that any client used by a user would inherit that theme. I'm guessing that would be a feature provided by cabal-node or cabal-client.
My question for cabal cli right now is, if that could be a thing, can the cli utilize a color theme set by the user in a similar way? And, would that translate well at all from desktop to cli?
I can bring this up as a fresh issue if that makes. But I thought I'd mention it since we're talking color.
Hey @nikolaiwarner , good idea.
I think it makes sense to have a ~/.cabal folder with some sort of configuration in there that can be accessed by clients. My suspicion is that clients will interpret and render these options differently and it'll be hard to come up with any abstracted 'global' settings for all clients.
As far as the original comment, it seems like a good idea although it might be hard to differentiate the colors over time and between different users. I'd probably want to be able to turn this off because I don't really enjoy lots of different random and potentially bright colors on my screen.
Yeah! I could see the desktop and mobile sharing themes easily. The cli seems like a different beast.
this is already in