View source for Suggestion talk:20090809 Contacts list improvement

==Discussion from [[Developing Suggestions]]==
This'd be really easy with a simple Greasemonkey script or something. --'''[[User:BobBoberton|<span style="color: #FF4500">Bob Boberton</span>]] <sup>[[The_Fortress|<span style="color: #6B8E23">TF</span>]] / [[The_Fortress/Dark_Watch|<span style="color: #778899 ">DW</span>]]</sup>''' [[Image:Littlemudkipsig.gif]] 08:36, 4 August 2009 (BST)

Isn't there already a "notes" field?--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 10:28, 4 August 2009 (BST)
:Afraid not. This suggestion isn't so bad, except I'll add that I've never had a problem with remembering colours, even when I come back to an account after 2 years. All it takes it to look at the name and their group and ''something'' should ring. --[[User:DanceDanceRevolution|<big><u><span style="color:DarkSlateGray">ϑ</span><span style="color:DarkBlue ">ϑ</span><span style="color:DarkSlateBlue">ℜ</span></u></big>]] 10:35, 4 August 2009 (BST)
::Ah, I was mistaking the "group" field for it.  That's what I get for going from memory when I don't use contact much lol.--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 04:21, 5 August 2009 (BST)
::I like this suggestion. I can't remember what purple is, and now I have no idea who "Max Lloyd" is, or why he's on my contacts.--{{User:Yonnua Koponen/signature‎}} 10:39, 4 August 2009 (BST)
:::Purple for me used to be for 'fans' that gave me a shoutout in-game, but after 2007 I had to change it to something else cause there weren't enough colours for all my needs. Hence, I'd be in more favour of just adding a larger colour palette. --[[User:DanceDanceRevolution|<big><u><span style="color:DarkSlateGray">ϑ</span><span style="color:DarkBlue ">ϑ</span><span style="color:DarkSlateBlue">ℜ</span></u></big>]] 10:43, 4 August 2009 (BST)
::::Perhaps both? I mean, I don't really use my contacts list anymore, but I know that it can be problematic for some people.--{{User:Yonnua Koponen/signature‎}} 10:54, 4 August 2009 (BST)
:::::Dont see a downside really. A box of what 20 characters? Incidentally. Zombies = Green, Red= Bad. --{{User:Rosslessness/Sig}} 10:59, 4 August 2009 (BST)
::::::I use Green for friendly contacts, Red for enemies, black for the first person who killed me, Purple I don't know, Blue for people who might be enemies but I don't know yet, Yellow and Orange for people who are neutral or ex-enemies respectively. But some people use different colours for GKers, PKers, barricade destroyers, zombies death cultists, allies, and members of their own group. So it can get pretty hectic.--{{User:Yonnua Koponen/signature‎}} 11:08, 4 August 2009 (BST)

I'm surprised it's not a dupe, but I like it, although the part about putting in a description so you can remember the colours is a bit of overkill. All you really need is a colour for friends, foes and group members, with perhaps other groups as other colours (and you can tell them by their listed group affiliation). If you can't remember, it can't be that important :p <small>-- [[User:Boxy|<span style="color: Red">boxy</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Boxy|<span style="color: Red">talk</span>]] • [[The Rules|teh rulz]]</sup> 11:21 4 August 2009 (BST)</small>
:The part about putting in a description so you can remember the colours is the whole suggestion. --{{User:Yonnua Koponen/signature‎}} 11:54, 4 August 2009 (BST)
::Oh, I thought it was also to allow you to pick the colour at the same time as saving a contact... meh then <small>-- [[User:Boxy|<span style="color: Red">boxy</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Boxy|<span style="color: Red">talk</span>]] • [[The Rules|teh rulz]]</sup> 16:23 4 August 2009 (BST)</small>
:::i was thinking about that too as if you have 50+ contacts on your list - you add one and then open contacts list again to find the one who is grey to put color on it.. [[User:Vidmaa|Vidmaa]] 17:00, 4 August 2009 (BST)

It is, basically, a [http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/PR_UI:_Sub_Pages#Contact_Comments dupe].  The author wants to add a field to explain the colors.--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 04:21, 5 August 2009 (BST)
:Well it is similar - i haven't found it before i made this - but what i am suggesting is one simple box the you could just put like red - enemy, yellow genny and radio destroyers,purple - revived me, blue i revived .. etc. and everyone decides what is needed for himself, by this making more clear what is around you in the building. To put notes under each name is good, but a little excessive in my opinion. [[User:Vidmaa|Vidmaa]] 09:56, 5 August 2009 (BST)    
::I accept what you're saying and I would vote keep if it got put up for voting (as opposed to a dupe) but the only problem is, that suggestion got 100% keep votes and still didn't get implemented, so you'd have to question whether Kevan would think the same with this suggestion. It is simpler though, so you never really know. --[[User:DanceDanceRevolution|<big><u><span style="color:DarkSlateGray">ϑ</span><span style="color:DarkBlue ">ϑ</span><span style="color:DarkSlateBlue">ℜ</span></u></big>]] 15:12, 5 August 2009 (BST)
:::The way I imagine this is something really similar to the box, we have as Zombie/Survivor appearance description box, somewhere at the top of contact page- that would be sufficient to make notes what color means and 255 characters is more then enough  [[User:Vidmaa|Vidmaa]] 16:55, 5 August 2009 (BST)  
:::What if Kevan is yet to get through reading all of the peer reviewed suggestions. It's possible he is yet to read it.--{{User:Yonnua Koponen/signature‎}} 22:00, 8 August 2009 (BST)
::Similar?  It is the same thing.  You have a field that you can type whatever you want into it.  You said "putting notes under each name is a little accessive" but that is EXACTLY what your suggesting here.  Your just limiting it to things like "red = enemy" even though it is up to each person to actually type "red = enemy" into the field.  So tell me how you would limit it to that in the first place?  If it is a strict limitation to color definitions only, you might as well just suggest strict color definitions themselves so you wouldn't even NEED a field.--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 04:41, 6 August 2009 (BST) 
::: Yes it would be the same as in description page,  but only one, so everyone can define color meaning for itself (ok red and green usually clear, but the rest are not) and it is NOT like for every person you add in contacts. player would had 255 symbols - so if he like he can name all colors, if he likes he can describe several persons. but he would have ONLY ONE box at the top, strict color would not work as i believe different players have different thoughts about what should be added to contacts list and marked. [[User:Vidmaa|Vidmaa]] 07:35, 6 August 2009 (BST) 
::::Ok, now your confusing me.  Only one box? Your going to have to have a field for every color so that a person can TYPE IN what the color means.  So you will have a box for red so that you can type in what red means.  A box for blue, so that you can type in what blue means, etc.  So its not one box, it is 8 (or more if he adds more colors).  And my comment about strict colors was exactly as you said, undoable because they are defined differently by each player.  The point of all this is why do you need an extra set of fields, which would necessarily be seperate from the rest of the contacts, to define the colors when you can do the same thing IN the contacts via a "notes" field.  If bob heals you and you make a note that he healed you and gave him the color green then green would, generally, mean "healer".  I think I'm just misunstanding your response.--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 09:57, 6 August 2009 (BST)
:::::How about if everyone gets a box on their setting (255 characters or whatever) for notes, which doesn't show up on their profile. Then it wouldn't be limited to colour, it could explain anything someone needs to remember.--{{User:Yonnua Koponen/signature‎}} 22:03, 8 August 2009 (BST)
::::::Is that what he's suggesting?--[[User:Pesatyel|Pesatyel]] 05:18, 9 August 2009 (BST)

I like the idea.  Maybe just a little specification on the number of characters are allowed for any particular field. --{{User:Maverick Farrant/sig}} 08:05, 6 August 2009 (BST)
:I moving the suggestion to voting area for final judgment [[User:Vidmaa|Vidmaa]] 18:58, 9 August 2009 (BST)