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Re: [Tools-discuss] XMPP room improvements

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sun, 15 November 2020 02:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] XMPP room improvements
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Sebastian Kippe <sebastian@kip.pe> wrote:
    > 3. Configure room avatars

    > Human brains prefer images to pretty much all other information for
    > sub-second parsing. Aside from making everything look much nicer in
    > general, setting room avatars make it easier to discern between rooms in
    > one's client, when joined to many different rooms on many servers.
    > Unlike the other 2 suggestions, this one requires a small amount of
    > work, of course, in that someone has to create square room avatar images
    > before configuring/uploading them from a client.

So, since most rooms are associated with WGs, it seems that really, each WG
needs to come up with a reasonable WG avatar.  Some have them (6tisch comes
to mind).  Most don't, but might want to think about it, because it also
helps with slides, etc.

What kind of resolution can/should this square room avatar be?

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