IT Troll 22 Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 The labels for computers in the UI are very short (7 characters plus 3 dots). In corporate environments naming conventions may mean that computers are indistinguishable. I suggest the following improvements: Allow the user to enter a custom nickname of 10 characters. Display the full name in a pop-up when hovering over. Have different icons or colours for different operating systems and an indicator showing which is the current master. Link to post Share on other sites
jml 50 Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 All good suggestions. In fact, given Mac typical naming schemes and potential DNS namespace collisions (e.g. DNS.domain.one, DNS.domain.two), 20 characters might be even better. Link to post Share on other sites
Synergy Team Popular Post Nick Bolton 407 Posted November 6, 2017 Synergy Team Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2017 Rename feature coming soon. I also like the hover idea. Edit: We'll also potentially be adding OS icons too. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites
IT Troll 22 Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 (edited) Is it soon yet? I appreciate that a rename/alias feature requires a bit of work, but a hover over which displays the full name should be a quick interim fix. P.S. I noticed that the master indicator got added in v.2.0.3 Edited February 28, 2018 by IT Troll Link to post Share on other sites
Synergy Team Nick Bolton 407 Posted February 28, 2018 Synergy Team Share Posted February 28, 2018 34 minutes ago, IT Troll said: Is it soon yet? We realized this needs a lot of behind the scenes work (i.e. separating hostnames from the config) which is a big change. To be honest, it may not be until 2.1. Link to post Share on other sites
IT Troll 22 Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 10 minutes ago, Nick Bolton said: We realized this needs a lot of behind the scenes work (i.e. separating hostnames from the config) which is a big change. To be honest, it may not be until 2.1. I figured that might be the case. But a hover over pop-up of the full name wouldn't be so tricky and would help out those with long and indistinguishable hostnames. Link to post Share on other sites
IT Troll 22 Posted March 13, 2018 Author Share Posted March 13, 2018 It's not quite a pop-up tooltip. But if you right-click on a computer you get some options which do feature the full computer name. Link to post Share on other sites
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