On 07/19/2013 11:19 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote: > On 07/19/2013 09:26 AM, Jan Pazdziora wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:17:49PM +0200, Petr Vobornik wrote: >>> Disclaimer: I have no strong feelings in this matter, it just looks >>> weird to me, so I'm OK with not doing it if it's general consensus. >>> Originally we wanted to do this change in >>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3569 but it was not done >>> because of string freeze. >>> >>> I guess you can add field suffix to every field from /etc/password >>> when you use it in a sentence but that doesn't necessary mean that >> You can. But gid exists as a concept beyond /etc/passwd. So does home >> directory. The GECOS field value does not, really. >> >>> it's its name. man 5 passwd doesn't use word 'field' next to GECOS >>> in fields description/list either. IMO our use case is the same. >> It says: >> >> GECOS This field (sometimes called the "comment field") >> [...] >> The gcos field in the password file was >> [...] >> >>> Historically correct label would probably be 'GECOS identity' but >>> that's not usable today as it's purpose is more general. > Do we have tips in the UI? > May be we should add them in future to provide extra information about > meaning of the field or button. > For now I think GECOS would probably be good enough. > Adding "field" makes it more precise but looks weird.
+1 for just "GECOS". Petr showed me both variants in the UI and "GECOS field" really looked weird. Martin _______________________________________________ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel
