Re: [Gaim-devel] Screen Name / Password String Changes

[Kevin M Stange <kevin@si...>]

Richard Laager wrote:
> I've had this sitting in my development tree for a little while. It
> normalizes some terms (and some case issues), which I feel makes for a
> better user experience.
>=20
> Thoughts?
>=20
> Richard
>=20
<snip>
>  			g_snprintf(msg, sizeof(msg), _("Already there"));

Is there any way to hit this one with some cleanup as well?  I think
"Already there" used to have a tendency to pop up without warning or
explanation at sign with insufficient context.  Problem is that I
vaguely recall that a user already being on your list or already being
on one of the privacy lists generate the same error.  If that's true,
the question would be whether we can infer in that function from which
action the error is occurring.

Kevin

[Gaim-devel] Screen Name / Password String Changes

[Richard Laager <rlaager@wi...>]

I've had this sitting in my development tree for a little while. It
normalizes some terms (and some case issues), which I feel makes for a
better user experience.

Thoughts?

Richard

Re: [Gaim-devel] Screen Name / Password String Changes

[Mark Doliner <mark@ki...>]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:00:15 -0600, Richard Laager wrote
> I've had this sitting in my development tree for a little while. It
> normalizes some terms (and some case issues), which I feel makes for 
> a better user experience.
> 
> Thoughts?

I like everything except... I think we should standardize on "username"
instead of "screen name."  Aside from "screen name" being kinda dumb, I think
"username" is more widely recognizable, and has a meaning that is easier to grasp.

Screen name is very AIM centric.  google searches for "screen name" and
"screenname" return a combined count of about 6.2 million hits, while google
searches for "user name" and "username" return about 782 million.  And
username has more hits than user name.

-Mark

Re: [Gaim-devel] Screen Name / Password String Changes

[Richard Laager <rlaager@wi...>]

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 03:02 -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
> I like everything except... I think we should standardize on "username"
> instead of "screen name."  Aside from "screen name" being kinda dumb, I t=
hink
> "username" is more widely recognizable, and has a meaning that is easier =
to grasp.

I don't disagree, and would personally prefer username, but I thought we
had previously decided that we were sticking with screen name.

Richard

Re: [Gaim-devel] Screen Name / Password String Changes

[Kevin M Stange <kevin@si...>]

Richard Laager wrote:
> I've had this sitting in my development tree for a little while. It
> normalizes some terms (and some case issues), which I feel makes for a
> better user experience.
>=20
> Thoughts?
>=20
> Richard
>=20
<snip>
>  			g_snprintf(msg, sizeof(msg), _("Already there"));

Is there any way to hit this one with some cleanup as well?  I think
"Already there" used to have a tendency to pop up without warning or
explanation at sign with insufficient context.  Problem is that I
vaguely recall that a user already being on your list or already being
on one of the privacy lists generate the same error.  If that's true,
the question would be whether we can infer in that function from which
action the error is occurring.

Kevin