Thank you, Carsten, for bringing this up for discussion.
I have no problem with changing to John Doe.
Below you see what we use in the current version (mainly screenshots with the me menu in them):

Figure 1.6: Setup your user account
Your name: Ubuntu
Your computer's name: ubuntu-PC
Pick a username: ubuntu

Figure 1.9: Login screen
Ubuntu

Figure 2.1: The Ubuntu 12.04 default desktop
Figure 2.2: The Indicators of the top bar
Figure 2.3: The Ubuntu 12.04 Launcher Panel on the left with a sample of applications on it.
Figure 2.5: The Dash
Figure 2.6: You can see the default results
Figure 2.7: This is the top bar of a window, named Titlebar.
Figure 2.10: You can change most of your system’s settings here.
Figure 2.13: The HUD
Figure 3.2: Here you can see the currently active connection is “Wired connection 1.”
Figure 3.6: The default Ubuntu home page for the Firefox web browser.
Figure 3.15: Use the Ubuntu Software Center to to get Gwibber add-ons. !!2x to
Figure 3.16: The Gwibber pull-down menu
Figure 3.19: A notification from Gwibber.
Figure 3.34: When you add files to an Ubuntu One synced folder
Figure 3.35: Use a folder’s right-click menu to sync
Figure 5.2: You can install and remove applications
Figure 5.8: This is an example of the Launchpad page
Me menu Ubuntu


Figure 3.14: You can talk to people nearby by entering your information.
First name: Ubuntu
Last name: User
Nickname: ubuntu

Figure 3.36: The Ubuntu One Control Panel
Figure 3.37: A file’s More button
Figure 3.38: Sharing folders
Hi ubuntu-manual!
Welcome ubuntu-manual

Figure 4.1: The Bluetooth applet menu.
Me menu = Ubuntu User

Figure 5.11: The default terminal window
ubuntu@ubuntu-PC:~$

Figure 5.13: Add, remove and change the user accounts.
My account Ubuntu (Administrator)

Regards,
Hannie


Op 05-08-12 19:49, Carsten Gerlach schreef:
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Hello,

Am 05.08.2012 17:35, schrieb c7p:
I agree with Hannie that we should pick a name that doesn't need 
translation and i guess that we can find something better than
"Ubuntu" as username -i don't find Ubuntu that bad-.
The idea with a name that don't need translation is good. "Ubuntu"
would be such a name. But the "problem" with "Ubuntu" is, that's not
clear, what it is, as Thorsten mentioned in his email yesterday. If a
newbie reads our manual he might think "Why is there on the
screenshots always the name of the Operating system?"

In the manuals that we used Quickshot to capture the screenshots
-if my memory preserves me right- the username was Quickshot.
Yes, you are right. But here we would have the same newbie question
"What means 'Quickshot'?"

Maybe we can use "UbuntuManual" but i 'm not sure if it sounds good
:)
It would be again a name that need translation, e.g. "Ubuntu-Handbuch"
for German. I have no problem with translating it, but it is again not
clear that this string is the user name.

So we could take "user name" as Thorsten mentioned yesterday, too. Or,
if I understand Patrick right, we could use a placeholder name, for
example "John Doe" in English or "Erika Muster" in German. The big
advantage of a placeholder name is IMHO, that a newbie directly see,
that this string is a user name and not a technical term or whatever.
It looks like, that nearly every language has such placeholder names
[1], so every translation group can choose the right one for their
language.

Greetings, Carsten


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_placeholder_names_by_language


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