On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 20:30 +0000, 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 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.
The username has a huge number of restrictions; is ขพฒษส a valid username, for example? Each user is guaranteed to have a username, but it's not necessarily going to be anything the user associates with themselves. I can see that it's difficult in the design to dynamically resize the login box, but it would be pretty easy to determine the size of the longest username, and use that for the box. That would perhaps give a slightly less pleasing box for users with short names. Would that be acceptable? Failing that, could we associate an extra, *user defined* “short name” or “display name” with each user? This obviously only works for new installs and where existing users deliberately change their name, so perhaps that's not a solution for Oneiric. The user indicator could also use that display name; it's pretty huge displaying “Christopher James Halse Rogers” -- 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
