On small-screen devices like netbooks the shorter username is preferable. 2009/12/2 Martin Albisetti <martin.albise...@canonical.com>
> On 12/02/2009 04:30 PM, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > >> The indicator applet in Karmic doesn't show the real user name, but it >> shows the login name instead. >> >> Many teachers like me use generic login names for the students (e.g. >> class-A) and tell them to supply their real names e.g. with `userinfo`. >> This way, and up until Jaunty, the teacher was able to see the student >> names when he was over their PC. >> >> Please consider reimplementing this functionality in indicator-applet >> for Lucid, as it was previously implemented in fusa. >> > > Many systems let you set a display name, which defaults to either your > username or your name. > Maybe that would give us the best of both worlds? > > > -- > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Eduard Grebe AIDS & Society Research Unit Contact: http://www.maanskyn.info/contact
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