Re: [Ayatana] Show real name in indicator applet

[Eduard Grebe <eduardgrebe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On small-screen devices like netbooks the shorter username is preferable.

2009/12/2 Martin Albisetti <martin.albisetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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?


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