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 little details" Is there a particular reason for not using simple user name as opposed to full name? For example, on all my systems, my full name is listed on my accounts, but my user names are all different (bladernr, dreadpiratejeff, jdlane, etc) and for test purposes I have multiple accounts that use the full names of friends of mind, and usernames that are arbitrary like test_user01 and mikeylogin. I'd personally have no issue if the login gave username as opposed to "real name" unless there's a valid security concern there. The truncation thing shown in your OSX images is only OK if users don't have the same name. I filed a bug ages ago with Red Hat over the output of a system command that truncated user names to the point where if you had usernames like: charleswinston0999 charleswilliams15 charleswingate1957 that command would truncate them all to "charlesw" and you'd have no way of telling WHICH of those three users were working. That's a bit different when you're truncating after 20 characters or more, but at 8 characters, it became a nightmare. I'm sure there's an elegant solution here, I just hope it can be found before release, because it really can make the beautiful login look really, really bad :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/827713 Title: Handles long names poorly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/827713/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
