On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 11:44 -0300, Martin Albisetti wrote: > On 12/04/2009 11:35 AM, mac_v wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:40 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > >> Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > >>> 2009/12/3 Eduard Grebe<eduardgr...@gmail.com>: > >>> > >>>> On small-screen devices like netbooks the shorter username is preferable. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> The best thing would be to have a gconf key or a preference to switch > >>> between full name, short username and no name at all (I don't need to > >>> see my login username always at the corner!) > >>> > >>> Abhishek > > > > +1 > > > > Though the user name is meaningful when there is a multi-user set-up or > > classroom setup as mentioned in the first post , it does not provide any > > useful information for a single user setup and it is a waste of pixels. > > > > Either the name need not be displayed for single user systems by > > default. > > A gconf key may solve the problem for us, but it won't solve it for users in > general. > Why not just allow setting a "display name" in the "About me" app? > Select something by default, and let people change it if they feel like being > addressed in a different way. We probably use the name in more than just the > indicator applet, so this could apply globally.
> > Or , we could use the space for something more meaningful to the user it > > would make sense. > > > > We could have a "mood reader" instead of the name. > > The session-menu can be made to detect the activity the user is doing > > and alter the "mood status" of the user in the menu. > > Wouldn't it seem odd that something so persistent (the panel) changed so much? > I didnt mean change the width of the area used for every status, but rather use the same space more usefully. The mood statuses , need to be single words and be able to fit the width. and not change the panel too much. Definitely, moving around items on the panel would be a bad idea ... :) -- Cheers, mac_v _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
