Re: [Ayatana] Show real name in indicator applet

2009-12-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > 2009/12/3 Eduard Grebe : > >> 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

Re: [Ayatana] Show real name in indicator applet

2009-12-04 Thread mac_v
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:40 +, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > > 2009/12/3 Eduard Grebe : > > > > > 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 switc

Re: [Ayatana] Show real name in indicator applet

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Albisetti
On 12/04/2009 11:35 AM, mac_v wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:40 +, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: 2009/12/3 Eduard Grebe: 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

Re: [Ayatana] Show real name in indicator applet

2009-12-04 Thread mac_v
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 +, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > >> Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > >>> 2009/12/3 Eduard Grebe: > >>> > On small-screen devices like netbooks the shorter username is pr

Re: [Ayatana] Show real name in indicator applet

2009-12-04 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 23:54 +0200, Eduard Grebe wrote: > On small-screen devices like netbooks the shorter username is > preferable. And this is the reason that we switched to username, to help out with small screens. The reality is for really small screens we'd want to drop the name all together

Re: [Ayatana] Show real name in indicator applet

2009-12-04 Thread Eduard Grebe
Except I may want the panel to show sabdefl, but other software, Evolution say, to know my full name is "Mark Shuttleworth". On Dec 4, 2009 5:19 PM, "Ted Gould" wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 23:54 +0200, Eduard Grebe wrote: > On small-screen devices like netbooks the s... And this is the reason t

Re: [Ayatana] Show real name in indicator applet

2009-12-04 Thread Jan Claeys
Op vrijdag 04-12-2009 om 13:40 uur [tijdzone +], schreef Mark Shuttleworth: > A preference or gconf key is rarely the best thing. We could make the configuration key sort of a "template string" (see e.g. the clock applet--although it's too complicated there IMO). What I mean is that that way