My biggest concern here is that the chat logs (local, group, IM) register both display and user name as a mandatory part of how chat logs work. This will forcefully create way to document that so and so was impersonating someone else and acting in a manner unacceptable to the real person. I'm not nearly as concerned that someone whose real life name is Charlene Trudeau wants her display name to be Charlene Trudeau. Esp since MY display name may become Char, or Charlene, or Char @ SkyBeam Estates or some other such whatever.
But I'd really like my IM logs, and those others might quote to read something like (using the simple last example above ) : IM: Char @ SkyBeam Estates (Charlene.Trudeau): I wish that there was an Alt-d hot key to take you to the browser style navigation bar at the top for easy entry of a slurl or region name. That would be my preference for both viewer display and chat logs, but definitely would want to see it mandatory on chat logs for any backup needed with LL in AR situations or any other disputes. Char Marine Kelley wrote: > 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 <stick...@gmail.com > <mailto:stick...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Marine Kelley > <marinekel...@gmail.com <mailto:marinekel...@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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
