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[Elias K Gardner <zorkerz@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree it is much more flexible to have a single name box. This allows for
any convention and allows me to name a contact "bob from work" or whatever,
in case the name is not enough information for me to recognize the contact
from. I still have to think about the what to be called box - very
interesting idea.


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Alejandro J. Cura <
alejandro.cura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For further info on why name fields should not be naively split into
> "First" and "Last" name, please see here:
> http://ux.stackexchange.com/a/15778
>
> cheers,
> --
> alecu
>
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Zonov Roman <roman2861@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Mostly we too, but sometimes we can use "Last Name - First Name") In
> Russia it depends from...beauty. In my case, it is lighter for tongue to
> name me as "Zonov Roman".
> >
> > 22.05.2014, 00:25, "Mike Sheldon" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 00:01 +0400, Zonov Roman wrote:
> >>
> >>>  Thank you. I reported a bug.
> >>
> >>  Thanks very much, I'll take a look in to that tomorrow.
> >>
> >>>  Lastly, I want to ask...all: is it normal in Europe and USA to use
> subname, but not name?) My name is Roman, surname - Zonov. Sorry, I don't
> fully understand European culture.
> >>
> >>  Sorry, I think the confusion is because in much of Europe we typically
> >> sign our names "Personal-name Surname" (so "Mike" is my personal name
> >> and "Sheldon" my surname/family name), so I assumed "Zonov" was your
> >> personal name rather than your surname; thanks for enlightening me as to
> >> the different convention in Russia, I wasn't aware of that.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>  Mike.
> >>
> >>>  21.05.2014, 23:43, "Mike Sheldon" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>>  Hi Zonov,
> >>>>
> >>>>  On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 22:19 +0400, Zonov Roman wrote:
> >>>>>   And where I should write about wrong letter in our language
> keyboard?
> >>>>   If you could file a bug against ubuntu-keyboard here:
> >>>>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-keyboard/+filebug
> >>>>
> >>>>   And explain which key is wrong and in what way, that'd be a big
> help.
> >>>>  I'm not especially familiar with Russian, so the more detail you can
> >>>>  give to make it clear exactly what we're doing wrong the better.
> >>>>
> >>>>  Thanks!
> >>>>   Mike.
> >>>  --
> >>>  Best regards,
> >>>  Zonov Roman.
> >>>
> >>>  VK: http://vk.com/zonov_roman
> >>>  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roman2861
> >>>  Twitter: https://twitter.com/zonov_roman
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Zonov Roman.
> >
> > VK: http://vk.com/zonov_roman
> > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roman2861
> > Twitter: https://twitter.com/zonov_roman
> >
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