[opensource-dev] Display names, again.

Marine Kelley marinekelley at gmail.com
Fri Aug 20 03:42:00 PDT 2010


That's not my job, I am a customer in LL's standpoint, I don't work for
them.

I already talked about possible ways to distinguish a display name from a
user name, for example by putting the display name into brackets in chatlogs
and offline IMs (which are plain text and html respectively), while using a
different color than for user names on the chat and IM while in world (which
is comparable to rich text)/ There are just plenty of ways. What I insist on
is that the information "this name is a display name" must come from the
server, not from the sending viewer. That's the important part.


On 20 August 2010 12:24, Stickman <stickman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Marine Kelley <marinekelley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > damage is done, it is too late. It is CAPITAL that a display name CANNOT
> be
> > mistaken with a user name, no matter how clever the owner of the display
> > name is.
>
> You make a good argument.
>
> How about a solution?
>
> Changing color is one. Might be easy enough. I don't know if LL would
> accept it.
>
> Changing another property of the name, be it font, size, position,
> etc, may be another solution. Font probably not.
>
> Feel free to come up with other solutions on how to avoid mistaking a
> display name with a username. I believe LL's purpose is to make
> display names seamless. So it needs to be as unobtrusive as possible.
> It also needs to be as simple to implement as possible. The easier the
> solution, the more likely LL can just drop it in and test it without
> losing time.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Stickman
>
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