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Comment on Diva Distro for 0.7: Introducing Wifi by Ai Austin

Ai Austin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:38:36 +0000

Diva. I was adding a line of text into the right menu to temporarily say create accounts was unavailable while I on travel… and noticed that adding in simple body text goes in as black (since the color is not specified in the style) on a black background (which is defined in the style as #000). Can I suggest you add color:#FFF; into the style sheet for the default “body” text definition to help anyone changign things and make sure such added text shows up without them having to work out why it does not?

body {
font-size:100%;
font-family: Arial,’Lucida Grande’,Verdana,sans-serif;
text-align:center;
background:#000 repeat-y top center;
color:#FFF;
}

Comment on Diva Distro for 0.7: Introducing Wifi by Erik N

Erik N — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:04:34 +0000

Diva, just want to say thank you so much for all your work! I’m really enjoying the new features.

Comment on Diva Distro for 0.7: Introducing Wifi by Ai Austin

Ai Austin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:45:33 +0000

I spotted that the bottom grey contents box rounded corner image is not present i your design Diva, thiough its in the images folder unused. Did you do that deliberatly to save space, or did you mena to enable it in content-box.html?

Comment on Diva Distro for 0.7: Introducing Wifi by Ai Austin

Ai Austin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:42:56 +0000

What does it reset the password to Diva? Ah, I guess you are meant to type in a new one there and then hit reset Got it!

I have noted that the style.css sets the width of the web page (at 999) jus a LITTLE bit too wide to render without a scroll bar fir the initial sgtartup width for most viewers after their initial installation. Setting the width down from 999px to 980 seems to be enough to make it look good without the scrool bar appearing. Would this be a change you could consider in style.css for the next release Diva?

style.css

alter 999px to 980px for overall page width (3 times)
alter 238px to 220px for right menu width (once)

I also found that lifting the footer up just a little worked well, rather than it trailing over the end of the visible display area on typical laptop sized web browser pages I saw. So I altered footer-pad top padding from 50px to 20px.

padding:20px 0px 0px 30px;

I guess I just go for tighter closed up styles though.

Comment on Diva Distro for 0.7: Introducing Wifi by Diva Canto

Diva Canto — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:51:11 +0000

When you do password reset directly in the admin interface, there is no email sent. We don’t want admin actions leaking anywhere. Email is only sent when the user goes through the “Forgot password” process.

Comment on Diva Distro for 0.7: Introducing Wifi by Ai Austin

Ai Austin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:18:15 +0000

Just doing soem more tstig on Wifi… as one user had password problems and when I did a password reset” in Manage Users he claimed the message of what to do and the new password to use did nnot come through to him.

I just tested this with one of my own avatars, and did a reset on it. The Wifi web page said

The account has been updated.

But I see no e-mail after a few minutes anyway to indicate what it was change to or the process to follow to get a new one. Should a message have been sent Diva? I have checked the e-mail address works fine.

I do find though that the previous password no longer works, so it must have got altered.

I had to manually change the password in the Robust.exe console to make sure I can get back in.

Comment on Diva Distro for 0.7: Introducing Wifi by Condensation Land: A status report « Zonja Capalini

Condensation Land: A status report « Zonja Capalini — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:31:47 +0000

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Comment on Diva Distro for 0.7: Introducing Wifi by Diva Canto

Diva Canto — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:49:05 +0000

Ai: region management is still in the works, not quite working.

The next release of Wifi will have many small improvements like the one you mention.

Comment on Diva Distro for 0.7: Introducing Wifi by Ai Austin

Ai Austin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:31:31 +0000

Diva, there are some web pages about region management in the Wifi distribution WifiPages directory. re these live or usable and what can they do?

A way to see and change the region settings would be most useful, especially now Melanie has removed the old region_settings.XML default changing facility. Having these all available as defaults to Wifi and a way to manage might be good?

One day a change to the confirmation of account setup e-mail to include the loginuri for the grid or standalone would I think help users.

Comment on Diva Distro for 0.7: Introducing Wifi by Zonja Capalini

Zonja Capalini — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:23:29 +0000

@Ai: “For retrieve password… if e-mail is the retrieval anchor… it would be good to list the avatars that have the e-mail address coupled and they could be given in a radio buttton style with first or only one elected. That could be enough to help the user get back in. Or the user could then ask for the password reset for the one selected. This would work for a single avatar too of coiurse.”

I think this would pose a significant privacy problem: for example, my email is public; by using it, everybody could in fact get an answer to the question “how many alts does Zonja have that are using her public email?”.

Maybe if a select where email = ‘email’ returns more than one row a non-compromising message could be issued (”insufficient data, please provide more details”), and then the user would be forced to enter more data (i.e., first name and/or last name, whatever is needed to get one and only row in the result set).