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

[Kelly Linden]

You will be Andromeda Quonset across all viewers and all scripts. All
existing scripts and new scripts using the existing functions will continue
to get Andromeda Quonset. You will *never* be Andromeda Resident (unless you
make another account after the change takes effect). Andromeda Resident
would be a completely separate account from Andromeda Quonset, just as
Andromeda Omega would be today. 'Resident' is just the final last name, and
is treated specially on new viewers to be hidden from view when displayed.

Your account will NOT change to Andromeda Resident. It will NOT change to
Andromeda.Quonset Resident. Resident will not be tacked onto the end of any
existing avatar's name.

All existing script library calls will forever more continue to return the
'full name'. Existing lists of avatars will continue to match their list of
avatars. There will be some potential confusion for new residents who will
identify as "John12345" or "John Smith" but not "John12345 Resident".

There will be entirely new LSL function calls to handle display names.

 - Kelly

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Andromeda Quonset <
andromedaquonset at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Indeed.  Wasn't there an issue in recent weeks/month with regard to the
> forum software and the case of the first letter of a name?
>
>
> At 04:23 PM 8/17/2010, you wrote:
>
> The fact that people have lower case first names isn't always a typo, in
> many cases it is intended.  Please do not force capitalization on names.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Bryon Ruxton <bryon at slearth.com> wrote:
>  As you are implementing this, you may to consider forcing capitalization
> via
> JavaScript or else on the first name (from the official actual username)
> e.g. "first Linden" look bad as if there is a typo in there and such proper
> nouns are normally capitalized.
>
> I have always found it annoying to see lowercase first names. It is
> probably
> mostly a result of omissions, but also tends to happen more frequently with
> younger users. And as we "officially" will get 16 and 17 years old it is
> much more likely to happen.
>
> It happens a lot in shopping carts or any web user database if you don't
> automatically capitalize first and last names or addresses by code, which I
> now tend to do to prevent such inconsistence in postage labels, etc...
> It would make for a more consistent database too.
>
> On 8/17/10 2:41 PM, "Brian McGroarty" <soft at lindenlab.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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