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[mac_v <drkvi-a@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 11:44 -0300, Martin Albisetti wrote:
> On 12/04/2009 11:35 AM, mac_v wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:40 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> >> Abhishek Dasgupta wrote:
> >>> 2009/12/3 Eduard Grebe<eduardgrebe@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>
> >>>> On small-screen devices like netbooks the shorter username is preferable.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> The best thing would be to have a gconf key or a preference to switch
> >>> between full name, short username and no name at all (I don't need to
> >>> see my login username always at the corner!)
> >>>
> >>> Abhishek
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Though the user name is meaningful when there is a multi-user set-up or
> > classroom setup as mentioned in the first post , it does not provide any
> > useful information for a single user setup and it is a waste of pixels.
> >
> > Either the name need not be displayed for single user systems by
> > default.
> 
> A gconf key may solve the problem for us, but it won't solve it for users in 
> general.
> Why not just allow setting a "display name" in the "About me" app?
> Select something by default, and let people change it if they feel like being 
> addressed in a different way. We probably use the name in more than just the 
> indicator applet, so this could apply globally.

> > Or , we could use the space for something more meaningful to the user it
> > would make sense.
> >
> > We could have a "mood reader" instead of the name.
> > The session-menu can be made to detect the activity the user is doing
> > and alter the "mood status" of the user in the menu.
> 
> Wouldn't it seem odd that something so persistent (the panel) changed so much?
> 

I didnt mean change the width of the area used for every status, but
rather use the same space more usefully.
The mood statuses , need to be single words and be able to fit the
width. and not change the panel too much.

Definitely, moving around items on the panel would be a bad idea ... :)


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