[JDEV] Renaming

[Max Metral]

That would totally bite for people who have 70 buddies and use many
machines...  Even now I can't use msn interop because it would take like an
hour to set it up.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jens Alfke [mailto:jens at mac.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 1:16 PM
To: jdev at jabber.org
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Renaming




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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