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Hi, i think that just shorting the name of the user like me Martin
Sebastian Brill... would be more than ok. Or just show the username.
Best regards!
** Attachment added: Long name issue in login box
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 20:30 +, Jeff Lane wrote:
That's well and good, and to be honest, the login experience is
GORGEOUS. But the over-run of long names, however, destroys all that
work that went into making it look so good in the first place.
Unfortunately, it says we spent a lot of
Out of curiosity, looked into how Mac OS X Lion handles long names and
it turned out that they're rather inconsistent…
** Attachment added: name_truncation_mac_os_x_lion.jpg
As for enlarging the login box dynamically… We've had a very
reductionist apporach to the login experience. Minimalistic layout,
alignment with Unity, no user pictures. There's richness to the
behaviour though – the login carousel moves vertically, in other words,
it's all on rails and very
That's well and good, and to be honest, the login experience is
GORGEOUS. But the over-run of long names, however, destroys all that
work that went into making it look so good in the first place.
Unfortunately, it says we spent a lot of time and effort to make this
pretty, but didn't worry about
Yep, if short name means username then as a technical detail it
shouldn't be exposed. I thought short name is something like a person's
own policy on their name.
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On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 10:25 +, Mika Meskanen wrote:
Right, this is an interesting bug to resolve!
Depending on the width of the login box there's a limit on how many
characters we can display in the name field. Thus, some sort of
truncation and/or abbreviation mechanism is needed.
Thanks for your insight Chris, very useful!
Sorry I misunderstood your surname with middle names. That highlights
the fact that in in general we have a number of people with double
surnames (like Rhys Jones, Kamstrup Erlandsen, García Rodríguez)
depending on language and culture.
Shortname is
Would it not make more sense to dynamically enlarge the width of login
box if the user has a long name?
Just a suggestion - sorry if I'm being stupid.
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Mika, the short name is the username of the user - it's a short word
used to uniquely identify the user. It has a limited set of characters
allowed, baically a-z, 0-9 and _ or -. (i.e. no spaces or non-latin
characters). This is entered at user creation time, see the User
Accounts dialog (click
As another example see Facebook - my name is Robert Ancell everywhere,
but in the URL it is http://www.facebook.com/robert.c.ancell i.e.
robert.c.ancell. It has to be this because there are limitations in
what can be in a URL, but it wouldn't make sense to show
robert.c.ancell anywhere in the
Right, this is an interesting bug to resolve!
Depending on the width of the login box there's a limit on how many
characters we can display in the name field. Thus, some sort of
truncation and/or abbreviation mechanism is needed.
Chris, how would you prefer your name to be treated in such case?
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Assigning to Mika for design feedback on what to do in this case.
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Assignee: (unassigned) = Mika Meskanen (mesq)
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Status: Confirmed = Triaged
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Importance: Undecided = Medium
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