Bug 6686 - Move the Player Name option from Advanced Settings
: Move the Player Name option from Advanced Settings
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: SB Controller
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Settings
: unspecified
: PC Windows XP
: -- normal (vote)
: Future
Assigned To: Ben Klaas
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Reported: 2008-01-20 13:57 UTC by Richard Titmuss
Modified: 2009-09-29 03:43 UTC (History)
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Description Richard Titmuss 2008-01-20 13:57:49 UTC
Personally I am not sure it's a good idea having options for renaming players on Jive, although I have actually used this myself. I would like to suggest moving this from 'Advanced Settings > Player Name' into the '<Player> Information' window. The player name is visible in this window, and selecting it could take you to a page where you can name the player. This would still keep the functionality, but simplify the number of menu options.

What do you think?
Comment 1 Blackketter Dean 2008-01-20 14:54:04 UTC
The idea was to put the settings that you might change more than once at the top level and the ones that you would change only once (or few people would change) under Advanced.

Do you feel strongly about this?
Comment 2 Ben Klaas 2008-01-20 15:36:15 UTC
I can add this later, but Player Information is a textarea not a menu and it looks good that way. I'm a bit resistant to changing that to a menu to accommodate the change
Comment 3 Richard Titmuss 2008-01-21 01:13:52 UTC
I do, I think we have too many advanced settings and this is something you really won't want to do very often at all.
Comment 4 Richard Titmuss 2008-01-21 01:17:13 UTC
I would also add that I think the Player Information should be displayed like the song information in a menu, being in a text area make it look inconsistent imho.
Comment 5 Ben Klaas 2008-01-21 06:34:37 UTC
I actually disagree with that, in that the player information (right now) is entirely read-only information, whereas the songinfo menu has action items. Having the items in player information be "selectable" by styling as a traditional menu makes the user think there's a further path to be taken, when in fact there isn't.

Of course, if one of those items allows for a player name change, then it's appropriate to switch it.

Enough about this though, this isn't a 7.0 bug! :)
Comment 6 Richard Titmuss 2008-03-11 13:47:35 UTC
I seem in the minority here.
Comment 7 Richard Titmuss 2008-03-12 04:53:37 UTC
Reset priority