Email accounts colors: Make sure there are no color conflicts [$5]

[joaojotta]

So, this doesn't need a lot to understand.

Issue/Request, there's simply no way to customize colors on different email accounts on the Mail app. It's just setup randomly by default (or generated by the email account name).
This caused me to have all 3 accounts with the same color.

Any way to add this?

Thank you!

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[ChristophWurst]

@skjnldsv any ideas? :)

[jancborchardt]

We could add a picker, just like in the calendar? What do you use there @georgehrke @tcitworld @raghunayyar?

[georgehrke]

We don't use any special library. It's just 8 colored boxes with an additional input for HTML 5 Input color

[tcitworld]

Native color picker or random color button as default if the native color picker is not available.

[skjnldsv]

Agree with the calendar way! :)

[joaojotta]

Choosing a color from existing 8 or customizing would be amazing! Whatever is easier.

[jancborchardt]

Recently I also ran into this, where my 2 (!) accounts have the same color. We could do it similar to the Calendar where a newly created calendar picks a color which has not been used. So if the autogenerated color is too close to one which already exists, we simply move along a bit on the color wheel?

[alexanderdd]

Please, implement the same color picker as in calendar (it's explained above). Wouldn't it make sense to use the same color picker across all (or all official) NC apps?

Colors convey meaning. My work calendar is yellow, my personal calendar is blue. I would like my work/personal email to be yellow/blue too.

[jancborchardt]

@alexanderdd please note that this app is open source, so you can help in several ways making this happen: Contribute code, open a bounty for it on Bountysource, spread the word to get developers to implement this, etc etc.

We discuss and decide what makes sense regarding design and development in a step-by-step process:

1. First step is to not have the colors of 2 accounts conflict. If you have only 2 accounts which happen to get the same colors through the algorithm, you shouldn’t need to fix it yourself via a color picker. Most people don’t change defaults, so we need this anyway.
2. In the future, and if possibly people help out, we can have a color picker there.

[alexanderdd]

Ok, thanks for this response. Now that you say that people don't change defaults, I agree that there should be an algorithm to avoid same colors for accounts. Before this explanation, I thought: why spend work time on the algorithm when multiple people have already expressed that they want a color picker? That's why I posted the comment above. (Offtopic:) Thank you also for the ideas how to contribute. I can not code myself, but I am reporting bugs and I follow the bugs that are important to me as a user. I already posted bounties on other bugs that are more important to me, I don't want to post a bounty on this one. To be honest, I don't know where to spread the word to attract developers. Am Fr., 30. Nov. 2018 um 17:53 Uhr schrieb Jan-Christoph Borchardt < notifications@github.com>:

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