131604 - Don't default to IRCMonkey

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

The default nickname of IRCMonkey is causing lots of new people to use it,
making IRC a lot less personal. I think Chatzilla should default to the current
username, or the user's mail name, or not default to anything at all.

Comment 1

[Robert Ginda]

I am *so* tempted to wontfix this.  It's just a default nick after all.  It's 
also got some humor/sentimental value.

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Defaults are everything. :-)

Seriously though. The number of IRCMonkeys that are frequenting IRC is making it
hard to distinguish newbies from each other.

Comment 3

[kirun]

Attachment: Makes a random nickname

How about this? It makes a random nickname using words from two lists, plus a
number.

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

"mowmow" is one word, not two. It capitalises to "Mowmow", not "MowMow".

Anyway, I think Chatzilla should default to the current username, or the user's
mail name, or not default to anything at all. The defaults given in the last
patch are no better than IRCMonkey.

Comment 5

[Alan]

defaulting to "UserNameMonkey" might be a way to idenify neophytes and retain
some of the cheeky humour but using the username in some way would be much
better than straight hardcoded default or randomely generated nickname.  

Comment 6

[Mick Weiss]

1 vote for a WONTFIX

- Mick

Comment 7

[James Ross]

Attachment: Use local environment to pick default nickname

Comment 8

[Robert Ginda]

Comment on attachment 193350 [details] [diff] [review]
Use local environment to pick default nickname

r=rginda

Comment 9

[James Ross]

Checked in --> FIXED.

Comment 10

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

out of curiousity, was there a reason why this didn't use nsIUserInfo?

Comment 11

[James Ross]

The main reason that it wasn't even considered - as I'm sure you'll have guessed - is that no-one knew that it existed.

The fact it is highly unimplemented across 4 separate platforms doesn't help its case, either - Win only has 1 of 4 props implemented, OS/2 has NOTHING, Mac has 2 real and two hacks, *nix has 1 real and 3 hacks.

Comment 12

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

ok. although all you need is the username property :)

Comment 13

[James Ross]

Although not mentioned in this bug, we actually wanted to use the "real name" of the user over the login name. That has an implementation record of 1 real, 1 hack and 2 not-impl. in nsIUserInfo. Even username is only 2 real, 1 hack and 1 not-impl.