Mismatched default avatar colours

[ara4n]

It's rather unintuitive that the colour of the room avatar doesn't match the user's avatar:

[rubo77]

can this be fixed easily?

maybe use an md5 hash on the comlete username and always create the colour from that?

[t3chguy]

This should also include matching the colour with the username colour in timeline

[waclaw66]

Another related problem is that avatar is not correcly depictured within browser notifications. There is shown only the solid color fill. I would suggest to use pre-rendered png avatar as another services do. That would solve both problems.

[waclaw66]

@t3chguy Do you have better solution?

[t3chguy]

I'm simply not a fan of the default avatars apps normally use, a colour and initial is much better for instant recognition than a random silhouette

[waclaw66]

I'm not talking about random silhouette, I'm in favour of current appearance too. But html representation as img and span doesn't work for notifications as I mentioned. In case of pre-rendered png (color+initial) you don't need to care about platforms (web, notification, android...).

[t3chguy]

So you want to pre-render every possible colour+letter permutation? Given that Displaynames are unicode that is a very large set of images.

[t3chguy]

Plus given that users are in control of the font their Element uses, the pre-rendered images would not be able to make use of system fonts and be fixed at just one font.

[waclaw66]

I just want to fix web notifications, that's it. If the way how other services (like Google) do that (pre-rendered png) is not feasible, then please propose better solution.