nctalk: Add option to use User ID instead of Display Name as nick #1252
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…ctalk/UserIdAsNick Co-authored-by: Gary Kim <[email protected]>
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I've been thinking about this, I think it's better we fix this in a general way instead of adding yet another config option. What about we add {USERID} (and {USERNAME} as an alias to {NICK}) as an option in |
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Come to think of it, this does sound like the more sensible approach. I just had a look at the code, the However, there's still the issue with nctalk's guest users, their random ID still needs to be covered. Also, if more keys are introduced in the future, the |
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I had some more thoughts about how to best implement this: I agree that it would be a good solution to extend the RemoteNickFormat. However, due to the special handling required for nctalk guest users, I think in this case this approach makes more sense. |
As proposed in #1250.
Use case: The Nextcloud instance I intend to use this with gets its user accounts from an LDAP directory with nicknames as UIDs and full names as display names. However, in channels which are bridged to public IRC, I'd prefer to use nicknames rather than full names.
This change only applies to non-guest users, as guests are already handled specially and their UIDs are long hex strings (like
4247797f3cbf4fb2f4ee73995f2a2c683d32284e), which is quite unfit for display.