matrix-org / matrix-org/matrix-spec
Space-level display name and avatar changes
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Description
Currently, if you wish to change your display name or avatar in a space, you have to do it in all the rooms that you're in.
Sure, this could be implemented as a client-side feature, but it wouldn't propagate to new rooms you join.
Since the display name and avatar are stored in a m.room.member event, I'm unsure how this would be implemented, but it could be useful to have the ability to "cascade" parts of state events or account data to children of a given space (recursively? probably), in a way that it can be overriden for specific rooms. This might be a way of supporting other space-level settings like https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/881
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Research direction
Start by reviewing how display names and avatars are represented in m.room.member events, then compare that with account data and the space model described in the issue. Consider the interaction between recursive inheritance and room-specific overrides, including the related space-level settings discussion in matrix-spec issue 881. Done would require a decided protocol design, not just a client-side change.
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Assessment
- Domain
- distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100