allow the ability to change the preferences profile name
1 May 2014 3:11:08 UTC
Topic 197566
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currently there are 4 preference profiles: default, home, school, and work. Would it be possible to default to these 4 profiles but allow individuals to rename them to something more meaningful?
allow the ability to change the preferences profile name
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Sorry, this would require a significant rewrite of the server- and possibly even client code. These "venue" names are hardcoded in a couple of places.
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Thought that might be the
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Thought that might be the case, but it never hurts to ask.
RE: Sorry, this would
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The BAM! BOINC Account Manager allows the use of your own venue names. This is supported by all present BOINC back-end versions and clients since some version 5.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/PrefsImpl also shows that it shouldn't matter what the venue name is, will take care of that.
RE: RE: Sorry, this would
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Oh, that's news to me. I vaguely remember the trouble to implement another venue "mobile", which finally was dropped again, IIRC for being too complicated.
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Is it possible to change the
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Is it possible to change the profile name yet?
It seems being allowed on other BOINC instances.
Can I request somewhere to change it in the backend if over GUI is not yet allowed.
Regards,
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