jitsi-meet: Numbers in the room name add too many spaces to the Tab Title

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We’re working at a place called C4DT, and as such we sometimes want to make rooms that include our name, like PartnerC4DT. Unfortunately, this renders to Partner C 4 DT, which is quite ugly with the space in between the C, the 4, and the T.

Describe the solution you’d like I would like no spaces around numbers.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered Using Partner_C_4_D_T, but that’s also ugly…

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State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 22 (10 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Keep room names starting with '_' To avoid beautifying corporate names including capital letters and numbers, rooms starting with a '_' are only beautified by removing the initial '_'. Fixes #6468 — committed to ineiti/jitsi-meet by ineiti 3 years ago

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Running into this. The UUID 699cbb1e-1ece-4ee1-8df3-da43893a087a causes the room name 699 Cbb 1 E 1 Ece 4 Ee 1 8 Df 3 Da 43893 A 087 A. The proposed solution of not beautifying UUIDs would be good.

WilliamDEdwards on Apr 16, 2024

As I mentioned here: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/6468#issuecomment-759446916 a setting to disable all beautification would be acceptable. PRs are welcome but it’s unlikely we’ll work on this ourselves.

That said, and given there has been no actual movement here for well over a year I’m going to close this. If anyone is inclined to work on it please feel free to leave a comment and / or open a PR.

saghul on Nov 30, 2021

We know that the room generator uses four words from the dictionary this means 3 spaces. Maybe we can add a logic where if the resulting prettified string contains more than 4 spaces we do not pritify it (give room for one more word to be added to generator) …

-1. Making assumptions always yields bad edge cases. It’s easier to reason about consistent behavior. There is a notable exception which would be easy to handle: UUIDs. If the room name is a UUID we could skip beautifying. Since UUIDs have a specific format we could parse and check it.

saghul on Jan 14, 2021