My preference on how to name the chat log file would be account name. The
reason is that I can always find my conversations with someone by their account
name, which does not change. If I am forced to use display names, then finding
conversations with that person depend on my using the OS to search an entire
directory worth of chat logs looking for their account name, and if I can't do
that (lots of people can't or don't know how, plus it's time consuming), then
I'm forced to have to remember what someone's display names have been in the
past - and they might change it every week. Not bad if it's only been a couple
of weeks, but try to track back 52 weeks... or 104.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)" <o...@lindenlab.com>
To: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com
Sent: Monday, November 8, 2010 11:45:10 AM
Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Request for feedback - Preferences Cleanup
On 2010-11-08 11:10, Sarah (Esbee) Kuehnle wrote:
Thanks again for all your feedback. I've made some updates to the design deck
(see attached).
I'm going to create subtasks underneath STORM-31 for the new preferences and
get these updates rolling with the team! :)
Cheers,
Esbee
PS - Please feel free to keep feedback coming
On the Privacy tab, you ask "Is this a timestamp in the log or in the
filename?"... I think that once we've integrated STORM-102 (a final test build
for that is running now), we'll actually have two checkboxes there. A new test
build for that is available now (fresh off the server) at [1].
• Add timestamp
• Add datestamp to log file name
The first one controls whether or not lines in the log file have timestamps on
them, and the second appends a datestamp:
For person-to-person chat, the datestamp is YYYY-MM (year and month)
For local chat, the datestamp is YYYY-MM-DD (year month and day)
One issue on STORM-102 that probably needs discussing... the present
person-to-person chat log file name is
First Last[-datestamp].txt
where First and Last are the real account names. If a person has a Display Name
set, that name is not used when constructing the file name: instead the real
first and last names for the account are used for the log file name. The
Display name does appear (followed by the userid "first.last" in parens) in the
log text content. This seems potentially confusing to me, especially if the
only name I ever use for someone is the Display Name. It seems to me that
either:
1. the Display Name should be used (if I remember talking to "Joe
Somebody", that's the log file name I'd be most likely to look for), which
would mean that each DN value would produce a separate log even if I had
conversations with the same user with different DNs,
2. or the userid (first.last) should always be used for the log file name.
[1]
http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/oz_viewer-storm-102/rev/214097/index.html
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