[JDEV] Renaming

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Hi Jens,

It'd be cool if you could post screen shots of your client -- if only so 
I can ooh and ahh over that ultra-clean OS X interface. :-)

Peter

Jens Alfke wrote:

> 
> On Friday, May 4, 2001, at 08:12 PM, Justin Mecham wrote:
> 
>     Educate, don't embrace stupidity.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately it doesn't seem that existing clients deal with resource 
> names very well. For example, gabber and Jabbernaut just seem to use the 
> name of the app as the resource name, which is pretty useless. In 
> Jabbernaut (dunno about gabber) it is possible to go into a pref dialog 
> and set a different resource name, but most people won't figure this out 
> on their own or understand what it's supposed to be used for.
> 
> By contrast, in my [embryonic] client I /require/ the user to enter a 
> resource name the first time the program's run. The modal dialog refers 
> to it as a "location name" and explains what it's used for. The resource 
> name entered is saved as a per-user-per-machine preference. (It can 
> later be edited in the prefs if the user changes her mind.)
> 
> Each buddy entry in my client's buddy list also shows the name of the 
> highest priority online resource, so you see "Joe Blow at work" or "Joe 
> Blow at PowerBook" depending on what machine JB is logged in from. 
> Unfortunately, if the buddy's using another client it tends to display 
> something like "Joe Blow at gabber" which is less than useful...
> 
> It would be nice if the people working on the other clients could take 
> the time to fix this. It only took me a few minutes to implement my 
> "location name" setup dialog.
> 
> —Jens



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Peter Saint-Andre
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