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" ' > > Melinda Green escreveu: > >> Mike Monkowski wrote: >> >> >>> Cypren Christenson wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> * 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> How about auto completion? >>> >>> >>> >> 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. >> >> >> >>>> * 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? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> 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. >>> >>> >> 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. >> >> Good luck! >> -Melinda >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
