805493 - It is difficult to tell between channels of the same name on different servers

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Instant Messaging, defect)

Description

[Mook (work)]

STR:
1. Join irc://irc.mozilla.org/firefox
2. Join irc://chat.freenode.net/firefox
3. Try to figure out which is which

There's little indication as to which conversation belongs to which network.  The easiest seems to be trying to guess from the participant list, or the /topic, or things along those lines...

I think ChatZilla's channel tree did it by grouping channels under servers.  That's an option, but other methods should be fine too, as long as there's _something_ :)

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/19.0 Thunderbird/19.0a1 20121024030645

Comment 1

[Martin Giger [:freaktechnik]]

Note that you can see what account a room belongs to in its tooltip. Bug 1743111 should also make it much easier to handle multiple accounts that are part of the same conversation.

Comment 2

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

I think the "fix" for this right now would be to show something like #firefox ([e-mail]) and #firefox ([e-mail]) to differentiate.

This would require finding the collisions, but I think that shouldn't be too bad.