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

[ned]

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

--- Comment #5 from ned <naught101 at gmail.com> ---
I don't think 16 is enough, by default either. You'd still have a >50% chance
of two people having the same nick colour in a conversation of 8 people
[(15/16)*...*(8/9)=0.5]. In busy channels, this would happen all the time. 

Btw, increasing the number of colours from 8 to 16 will inherrently *decrease*
the contrast, not increase it. But it increases the differentiability between
nicks, which is what's important. 

Frankly, if you hashed nicknames to a colour in a given "safe" range (let's say
to any hue, 60-90% saturation, and luminosity 10-30% for light backgrounds, or
70-90% for dark backgrounds), then you ARE likely to get some colours that are
fairly similar, but the chance that they are so similar as to be confusing is
still going to be WAY less than if you have a palette of 16, or even 50.

If you decide to stick with a resizable palette, I guess I can always write a
script to give me a 100 colours, to make it a bit unlikely to get a clash, but
I don't really see myself using a UI for that. I can't imagine anyone's gonna
see a palette of 16, and then add another 30-40 colours using the UI, and
making sure that they are relatively differentiable. That'd be a huge pain in
the arse.

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