[sldev] RFC: design proposal for VWR-1071

[Melinda Green]

You'll get a lot of support from Philip for merging first+last names as 
it is one of his biggest pet peeves, but I'm pretty sure that this is 
*way* out of scope for the Snowglobe project since the assumption of 
first and last names is shot all through client and server code. It 
would likely require a concerted effort by a Linden, and given all the 
higher priorities, I doubt we'll see this happen anytime soon unless 
Philip personally decides to take a crack at it.

-Melinda

Tigro Spottystripes wrote:
> I think this would be a good time to bring up
> http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-968 ' merge "First name" and "Last
> name" into "Full name" '
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> Melinda Green escreveu:
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>> Mike Monkowski wrote:
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>>> Cypren Christenson wrote:
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>>>> * The use of a combo box for the first field, with selection setting
>>>> the contents of multiple fields, may be confusing. Any other options
>>>> here that would be more intuitive while also keeping the aesthetic
>>>> sensibility of the existing login screen would be welcome.
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>>> How about auto completion?
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>> Hey, that's a great idea! It would require a tricky special 
>> implementation of auto-complete that would offer matching first+last 
>> name pairs and then on acceptance would separate them to fill in the 
>> other text boxes, but that UI would likely be more natural to a new user 
>> than an editable drop-down field. This still requires a way for users to 
>> erase entries from the list but I think my previous suggestion of tying 
>> that action to unchecking the "remember password" check box might work.
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>>>> * Possible security concerns with the characters selected for the
>>>> delimiters. With LLPanel::childSetPrevalidate to filter characters
>>>> from input, the worst-case scenario seems to be that a malicious user
>>>> could edit settings files and induce boost::tokenizer to fail to parse
>>>> the string correctly. In that event, we would simply clear the
>>>> relevant fields. Are there other concerns I'm missing?
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>>> I think the settings are FirstName and LastName.  I don't see the 
>>> password in the settings file.  But instead of mashing everything 
>>> together, you could create setting called FirstNameAlt1, FirstNameAlt2, 
>>> LastNameAlt1, LastNameAlt2, ...  You'd have to make sure that you move 
>>> the names up the list when one gets deleted, otherwise you wouldn't know 
>>> where to stop, since I don't think the settings lookup allows a wildcard.
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>> This would be new data. I like Cypren's suggestion to mash it all 
>> together into a single (new) string value rather than as separate 
>> settings and/or places that would only need to be gathered all together 
>> anyway. For compatibility, I suppose it could look for the old 
>> First/Last Name settings when the new setting is not found but I don't 
>> see that as important.
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>> Good luck!
>> -Melinda
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