Matrix-doc: Ability to override the displayname for users & rooms that get served to you (SPEC-427)

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Submitted by @​matthew:matrix.org
This could be done by account_data, both per-room (for overriding m.room.name and membership names within rooms) and globally (for overriding user displaynames globally)

(Imported from https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SPEC-427)

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Edit (richvdh 2020/08/11): I think this feature is asking for the ability to set local displaynames for rooms and other users, that are not shared with other users. For example, I might want to set a displayname of "Mum" for my mum, while her public displayname remains unchanged.

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is duplicated by SPEC-456

[realitygaps]

Is this still planned? would be useful feature imo.

[ara4n]

You could patch this up clientside, but for a good implementation you'd need proper mention support at last, so i can say <a rel="@realitygaps:matrix.org">Mr Flibble</a> hi! and have the rest of the room have a hope in hell of understanding what i meant

[madduck]

/me is really longing for this…

[Ekleog]

I guess upping a a-few-months-old thread is not a big issue, so... longing for this too :)

[ghost]

likewise. this would be really helpful. hopefully someone will bump the priority.

[ghost]

What about this? 2 years since request and still nothing happened in this matter, IMHO it's probably one of most needed features.

[rkfg]

How about also overriding avatars? Would be useful for IRC bridges at the very least where the IRC clients obviously can't have avatars. Assigning them ones could prove useful.

I see there's already vector-im/riot-web/issues/363 but it's said to be a duplicate of vector-im/riot-web/issues/3130 which links to this issue. I think both avatars and names are alike in this regard so it's best to track it here.

[MurzNN]

Now users already can set per-room name and avatar, but only for himself, and this is publicly visible. Does room state have any private user storage, that visible only for user? If yes, we can store override info about all users in it.

[EDmitry]

This would be a terrific feature to rename rooms/contacts along with their aux data like avatars server-side.

[MyriaCore]

There's definitely still demand for this issue! Is this planned at all?

[turt2live]

Everything is planned given enough time. It currently would require an MSC from the community to get it anywhere near the list of things to worry about, however.

[madduck]

https://matrix.org/docs/spec/proposals lays out this process. I am definitely able to support anyone, but I cannot take on driving an MSC right now.