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

malachi malachi at tamzap.com
Tue Aug 17 18:45:54 PDT 2010


I understand this is all coming about to make it easier for people. Fine  
and dandy there. But isn't this just limiting the overall number of users  
that will be allowed to create accounts? I mean there are only so many  
combinations of characters that could be created with the last name  
Resident. I think if you are worried about residents walking away from the  
registration page because of a 'limited' list of last names, perhaps the  
official second life page could be a bit more like the regapi's that are  
out there. like it used to be in the good old days. when one could just  
select their last name from the entire list of last names, and not from a  
randomized pick of 12. just my 2 cents sorry to bother anyone.

malachi


On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:04:19 -0400, Kelly Linden <kelly at lindenlab.com>  
wrote:

> 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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