Many consecutive action messages can be hard to distinguish
Steps
- Open a quiet channel you're allowed to spam for testing
- E.g. Freenode/
#quassel-test
- E.g. Freenode/
- Via another client, connect as another user with the same nick color as action messages
- E.g. for
Material Dark
, the nicktestcrc3
is blue
- E.g. for
- Send several action messages from both nicks without any normal messages in between
- A mix between your nick and other nicks helps with possible confusion
Outcome
With the Material Dark
theme, you acquire a wall of mostly blue text which can be hard to distinguish, especially with blue light filters like Night Light or LineageOS' LiveDisplay.
Example screenshot of Quasseldroid showing action messages
Suggestions
General
- Sender colors in action messages sent from your nick should use the same nick color as normal messages
- If not, perhaps Quassel desktop should be changed, too?
When separated nicknames is on, i.e. not classic IRC look
- More spacing for action messages so they don't clump together
- Consider a means to still show avatars and possibly real name
Additional
This one's up to use cases - if you don't use Quasseldroid in /me
-heavy places, it's less likely to affect you.
For comparison, here's Quassel's desktop rendering of the messages. It's not great either, but (to me) it seems a little more distinguishable with at least having markers in the sender column for where messages begin - it sticks out, rather than Quasseldroid's hyphen indent, and it carries the color of the nickname.