Herald Names

This is a mirror post from a Second Life Notecard by Wolwaner Jervil.
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Since Viewer 2.3 and change to single login names we have some confusion about what name is used,

Definitions:
Username: The one you use to login with - your unique name in Secondlife. It cannot be changed.
Displayname: The name you can freely choose once a week - it is NOT unique.
Single Username: a Username with "Resident" as lastname (by default since November 2010). It cannot be changed.


Lets assume the following:
(1) Old resident: Wolwaner Jervil with a Display Name of Wolwaner
(2) New Resident: Wolwaner with a Display Name of Wol

All settings only belong to my viewer -
others cannot influence the way I see them!

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Old Viewers upt to SL Viewer 2.2 will show:
(1) Wolwaner Jervil - the original login name chosen
(2) Wolwaner Resident - the lastname "Resident" is the default for single login names for compatibility reasons.
This also applies to Radars and all other objects that display names until they are changed to include the single login and display names.

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SL Viewer 2.3 has different behavior, depending on the setting used.
Preferences -> General -> View Display Names checked
Preferences -> General -> Usernames checked
(1) is shown as Wolwaner and below we see wolwaner.jervil
(2) is shown as Wol and below we see Wolwaner
IM Windows: we see Displayname (username): (1) Wolwaner (wolwaner.jervil), (2) Wol (wolwaner)

Preferences -> General -> View Display Names unchecked
Preferences -> General -> Usernames checked
(1) is shown as Wolwaner Jervil
(2) is shown as Wolwaner
IM Windows: we see (1) Wolwaner Jervil and (2) Wolwaner
This Version is essentially the same as it is in previous viewers

Preferences -> General -> View Display Names checked
Preferences -> General -> Usernames unchecked
(1) is shown as Wolwaner
(2) is shown as Wol
IM Windows: we see Displayname (username): (1) Wolwaner (wolwaner.jervil), (2) Wol (wolwaner)

Preferences -> General -> View Display Names unchecked
Preferences -> General -> Usernames unchecked
(1) is shown as Wolwaner Jervil
(2) is shown as Wolwaner
IM Windows: we see (1) Wolwaner Jervil and (2) Wolwaner
This Version is essentially the same as it is in previous viewers

So basically we can switch between the Username display like it was in previous Viewers, we can use the display names only - this seems to be the roleplay implementation and we can use both.

NOTE: Only the usernames are kept unique. So when using display names you might be able to see 2 or even more Wolwaners in the future - what a shame to my unique name creation.

Hope this helps to understand the differences - have fun with all kind of names now.

Greetings
Wol
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