Personal ('pet name') room name for chats

[dreamflasher]

Currently, if the channel with another person is not named, then their nickname is shown.
Problem:

1. It's impossible with many people to remember everyones nickname.
2. Also it's impossible to convince everyone to use their full real name (and also undesired).
3. Naming the channel in a meaningful way has the problem that it's shown for the other person, too. So currently we use titles for chats where both names are in.

Second group of problems: A MUC rarely has a good name that is helpful to everyone. See @uhoreg comment. Eg. you have an "Organization" channel of some open source project, which is just very unhelpful if you are in multiple projects. So it would in general be helpful for all chats to have a custom/personal room name.

Possible solutions:

• Make the channel name for People chats a personal/local/account setting (instead of a server? setting)
• Have something like an address book where one can give names for people and display these names when the channel is unnamed

[uhoreg]

It would be helpful for users to be able to set a custom name for rooms in general, with the custom name only being shown to the user who set it. For example, it would be useful if someone is subscribed to both #debian on Freenode and #debian on OFTC to set custom names so that they're distinguishable.

[dreamflasher]

Good point, I didn't think of it, yes actually channel names should personalizable in general.

[ara4n]

This is basically https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/690. Agreed it'd be nice to have - it's very annoying when someone renames a 1:1 to be called something unhelpful like "Matthew"

[uhoreg]

Would also be good to be able to set a personal avatar for the room without affecting other users.