Differentiating multiple accounts more easily

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An Android client for the microblogging server Mastodon

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Differentiating multiple accounts more easily #670

Open bhtooefr opened 6 years ago

bhtooefr commented 6 years ago

An interesting idea to make it easier to tell which account you currently have selected would be to have multiple app color schemes (I'd prefer a hue slider, but discrete color schemes could work too), on a per-account basis. This idea is based somewhat on what some *nix distributions do by default when logged in as root - you get a red-based color scheme instead of the default.

Tusky Version: 1.8.0
Android Version: 8.1.0 patch level May 5, 2018
Android Device: Google Pixel XL
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bhtooefr commented 6 years ago

Another suggestion from @waifu@pikachu.rocks (and by @tora@niu.moe, I didn't see that at first): "You could also suggest showing the icon of the account you are logged into in place of the burger menu."

Potentially both approaches make sense - I use the same avatar everywhere, so that wouldn't help for my alts, but for users that use different avatars, it's yet another visual cue that can help.

xuv commented 6 years ago

I like @bhtooefr proposition of seeing the avatar in place of the burger menu. Thought it raises the question of what to click when you want to view that account profile page? It now involves clicking on that particular avatar. That could create confusion.

witcheslive commented 6 years ago

I would absolutely love this as I use the avatar on my accounts to avoid confusing others, but there's like 4 of them. Also as the admin of witches.live I want a cute witch color like my instance, so I would really appreciate this feature!

mispp commented 1 year ago

Also to configure which account uses which theme (dark/light) might be useful.