[Konversation-devel] [Bug 258536] New: More varied nick colors (random?)

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258536

           Summary: More varied nick colors (random?)
           Product: konversation
           Version: 1.3
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: ircview
        AssignedTo: argonel at gmail.com
        ReportedBy: naught101 at gmail.com
                CC: konversation-devel at kde.org


Version:           1.3 (using KDE 4.5.3) 
OS:                Linux

At the moment, there's only 8 possible nick colors. I'm not sure how they're
distributed among users, but regardless, it's not enough. If you're in a
conversation with 5 people, then you have a >50% chance of two of them having
the same colour. Right now I'm looking at a conversation with 12 people that
has 2 green users, 2 red users and 5(!) pink users. Makes following the
conversation very difficult.

I reckon randomly generating colours (perhaps with some kind of limits, eg.
avoid clashes with the background colour), and applying them only as people
speak for the first time (this avoids wasting colours on idlers) would be
great.

A bonus would be to be able to change the color of a nick for the case where
two colours are too similar, if not manually, then just re-generate it
randomly.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
enter any busy irc channel and watch.

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