[opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

[Brian McGroarty]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Lance Corrimal
<Lance.Corrimal at eregion.de> wrote:
> ...
> http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2010/08/17/display-
> names-bringing-greater-self-expression-to-second-life
>
> ... I guess that means the end for logging in with 1.x based viewers,
> does it?

Old viewers will continue to work. Old accounts would continue to log
in as they do today. New accounts log in with their username as their
first name and "Resident" as the last name. (For the difference
between username and Display Name, see the FAQ linked at the end of
the blog post).

Under the hood, for all legacy viewers and scripts, the only real
change is that new accounts created after some point will only ever
have "Resident" as a last name. The new Display Names won't replace
usernames in any location within an old viewer.

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Brian McGroarty | Linden Lab
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