Re: Login issue with glChess

["Robert Ancell" <robert ancell gmail com>]

Oh, I forgot to mention that glChess is using ~/.ggz/ggz-gtk.rc so
that user can configure their login name from any other GNOME/GTK GGZ
client (or with a text editor).

2008/12/23 Josef Spillner <josef ggzgamingzone org>:
> Hello,
>
> a user has reported that he couldn't log into the GGZ server with glChess.
> After some debugging, we found out that his Ubuntu username (which is being
> used automatically by glChess as GGZ nickname) is already reserved by another
> player on the server.
>
> I think it's a good idea to simplify the login dialogue, but in this case it
> makes it impossible for the user to log in. Maybe an "edit profile" button
> would be a good idea?
>
> Other small bugs I've uncovered during the search:
> - glChess hardcodes New Zealandish English, oops :)
> - the use of error codes in the GGZ protocol could be improved to be less
> ambiguous of what "wrong login type" means, e.g. we've got USR_TAKEN by now
> but I'll have to see if it would apply to this situation
>
> Josef
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