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[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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> Martin
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