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[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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Martin